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Common Problems 118075

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS – Python pip install fails due to outdated certificates

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 5–30 min  Last verified: 30 July 2019 Affected versions: Ubuntu 18.04 LTS Ubuntu 18.04 Ubuntu 18.04.6 📖 ~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 […]

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Common Problems 115076

RHEL 8 rsyslog Not Forwarding Logs To Remote SIEM

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 5–30 min  Last verified: 30 July 2019 📖 ~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 & Cross-Refs References & Further […]

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Ubuntu 16.04 — commons-beanutils — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 16.04

Ubuntu 16.04 — commons-beanutils — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 30 July 2019 Affected versions: Ubuntu 16.04 (xenial) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Ubuntu Security Notice USN-4766-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2014-0114 CVE-2019-10086 Upstream summary: It was discovered that Apache Commons BeanUtils improperly handled certain input. An attacker could possibly use this vulnerability to cause a crash or […]

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How To Secure Your OrientDB Database on Ubuntu 16.04 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Secure Your OrientDB Database on Ubuntu 16.04

OrientDB is a multi-model, NoSQL database with support for document and graph databases. In this article, we’ll focus on securing an installation of the Community edition of OrientDB using only the resources available by default. Specifically, you’ll encrypt the OrientDB database, restrict access to the OrientDB web server and server instance, and manage OrientDB database accounts from both the web UI and console.

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How to Install and Configure Caddy Web Server on RHEL 8 — step-by-step RHEL 8 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Install and Configure Caddy Web Server on RHEL 8

Caddy is a modern, open-source web server written in Go that automatically provisions and renews TLS certificates via Let’s Encrypt. Unlike Apache or Nginx, Caddy requires almost no manual TLS configuration, making it an excellent choice for developers who want HTTPS out of the box. On RHEL 8, Caddy is not available in the default […]

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openSUSE Tumbleweed — xlockmore — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on openSUSE Tumbleweed

openSUSE Tumbleweed — xlockmore — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: openSUSE Tumbleweed 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: SUSE security advisory (see also SUSE bugzilla) Related CVEs: CVE-2013-4143 Upstream summary: The (1) checkPasswd and (2) checkGroupXlockPasswds functions in xlockmore before 5.43 do not properly handle when a NULL value is returned upon […]

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How To Install Nginx on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Install Nginx on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

Nginx is one of the most popular web servers in the world. It is extremely flexible and powerful and can be used to efficiently host sites and applications small or large sites and applications. In this guide we’ll cover how to install and set this up on an Ubuntu 14.04 server.

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Cómo configurar las llaves SSH en Ubuntu 18.04 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

Cómo configurar las llaves SSH en Ubuntu 18.04

SSH, o blindaje seguro (secure shell) es un protocolo encriptado para administrar y comunicarse con servidores. Al trabajar con servidores Ubuntu, generalmente pasarás la mayor parte del tiempo conectado mediante SSH desde una terminal a tu servidor. En esta guía, nos…

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Common Problems 115599

RHEL 7 swap not activated at boot due to incorrect UUID in fstab

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 5–30 min  Last verified: 29 July 2019 Affected versions: RHEL 7 📖 ~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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Common Problems 115039

RHEL 8 – NFS Mount Access Denied by firewalld and SELinux Policy

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 5–30 min  Last verified: 29 July 2019 📖 ~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 & Cross-Refs References & Further […]

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