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How To Implement Continuous Testing of Ansible Roles Using Molecule and Travis CI on Ubuntu 18.04 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Implement Continuous Testing of Ansible Roles Using Molecule and Travis CI on Ubuntu 18.04

Molecule is a tool for performing automated testing of Ansible roles. Travis CI is a continuous integration tool that allows for tests to run continuously to ensure contributions to your code do not introduce breaking changes. In this tutorial, you will configure a pre-made base role, initialize a Molecule scenario to test your role, and set up Travis CI to continuously run your tests against changes to your role.

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openSUSE Tumbleweed — pam-modules — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on openSUSE Tumbleweed

openSUSE Tumbleweed — pam-modules — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🔴 Critical   ⏱ 15–90 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: openSUSE Tumbleweed 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: SUSE advisory SUSE-SU-2018:1760-1 (see also SUSE bugzilla) Related CVEs: CVE-2011-3172 Upstream summary: A vulnerability in pam_modules of SUSE Linux Enterprise allows attackers to log into accounts that should have been disabled. Affected releases are […]

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Ubuntu 14.04 LTS RAID Degraded After Unexpected Reboot

🟠 High   ⏱ 5–30 min  Last verified: 19 May 2020 Affected versions: 14.04 LTS 📖 ~1 min read Table of contents Symptom & Impact Environment & Reproduction Root Cause Analysis Quick Triage Step-by-Step Diagnosis Solution – Primary Fix Solution – Alternative Approaches Verification & Acceptance Criteria Rollback Plan Prevention & Hardening Related Errors & […]

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Использование SFTP для безопасной передачи файлов с удаленного сервера — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

Использование SFTP для безопасной передачи файлов с удаленного сервера

SFTP — это безопасный способ передачи файлов между локальным и удаленным серверами. Будучи значительно более безопасным, чем FTP, данный протокол использует туннель SSH для установления подключения и использует шифрование для передачи файлов в рамках интерактивного сеанса.

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Ubuntu 16.04 — inspircd — multiple vulnerabilities (3 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 16.04

Ubuntu 16.04 — inspircd — multiple vulnerabilities (3 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 19 May 2020 Affected versions: Ubuntu 16.04 (xenial) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Ubuntu Security Notice USN-7405-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2016-7142 CVE-2019-20917 CVE-2020-25269 Upstream summary: It was discovered that InspIRCd did not correctly handle certificate fingerprints, which could lead to spoofing. A remote attacker could possibly use […]

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How to Configure Disk Encryption with VeraCrypt on Debian 10 — step-by-step Debian 10 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Configure Disk Encryption with VeraCrypt on Debian 10

Introduction This guide explains how to Configure Disk Encryption with VeraCrypt on Debian 10 on Debian 10 Buster. Debian Buster uses systemd for service management, nftables as the underlying packet filter (with ufw or iptables front-ends still available), and AppArmor for mandatory access control. Every command is designed for a minimal Debian 10 install with […]

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Oracle Linux 8 — java-1.8.0-openjdk — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Oracle Linux 8

Oracle Linux 8 — java-1.8.0-openjdk — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide (ELSA-2020-4347)

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 19 May 2020 Affected versions: Oracle Linux 8 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: ELSA advisory ELSA-2020-4347 Related CVEs: CVE-2020-14803 CVE-2020-14782 CVE-2020-14796 CVE-2020-14781 CVE-2020-14792 CVE-2020-14779 Table of contents Symptom & Impact Environment & Reproduction Root Cause Analysis Quick Triage Step-by-Step Diagnosis Solution – Primary Fix Solution – […]

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Oracle Linux 8 — java-11-openjdk — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Oracle Linux 8

Oracle Linux 8 — java-11-openjdk — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide (ELSA-2020-0128)

🟠 High   ⏱ 15–60 min  Last verified: 19 May 2020 Affected versions: Oracle Linux 8 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: ELSA advisory ELSA-2020-0128 Related CVEs: CVE-2020-2583 CVE-2020-2655 CVE-2020-2590 CVE-2020-2593 CVE-2020-2601 CVE-2020-2604 Table of contents Symptom & Impact Environment & Reproduction Root Cause Analysis Quick Triage Step-by-Step Diagnosis Solution – Primary Fix Solution – […]

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How To Monitor Nagios Alerts with Alerta on CentOS 7 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Monitor Nagios Alerts with Alerta on CentOS 7

Alerta is a web application used to consolidate and de-duplicate alerts from multiple monitoring systems and visualize them on a single screen. Alerta can integrate with many well-known monitoring tools like Nagios, Zabbix, Sensu, InfluxData Kapacitor, and…

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