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How To Setup Your Own VPN With PPTP — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Setup Your Own VPN With PPTP

A Point-To-Point Tunneling Protocol (PPTP) allows you to implement your own VPN very quickly, and is compatible with most mobile devices. Even though PPTP is less secure than OpenVPN, it is faster and uses less CPU resources.

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How to Upgrade OSSEC 2.8.1 to OSSEC 2.8.2 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Upgrade OSSEC 2.8.1 to OSSEC 2.8.2

OSSEC is an open-source, host-based intrusion detection system (HIDS) that performs log analysis, integrity checking, Windows registry monitoring, rootkit detection, time-based alerting, and active response. It can be installed to monitor a single server or thousands of servers.

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How to Use Ansible Roles to Abstract your Infrastructure Environment — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Use Ansible Roles to Abstract your Infrastructure Environment

This tutorial will explore how to create roles with templates and static files. Once you are familiar with the fundamentals of building roles, we’ll use [Ansible Galaxy](https://galaxy.ansible.com/) to incorporate community contributed roles into playbooks. By the end of this tutorial you will be able to create your own environment specific roles for your servers and use them in your own playbooks.

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How To Use Fabric To Automate Administration Tasks And Deployments — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Use Fabric To Automate Administration Tasks And Deployments

In this the cloud provider article, the system administration and application deployment streamlining library “Fabric” is our subject. We will learn how to install this wonderful tool, as well as see how easy things can become by simply automating mundane management tasks that would otherwise require jumping through hoops with bash hacks and hard-to-maintain, complex scripts.

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