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How to Set Up Tripwire for File Integrity Monitoring on RHEL 9 — step-by-step RHEL 9 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Set Up Tripwire for File Integrity Monitoring on RHEL 9

File Integrity Monitoring (FIM) detects unauthorised modifications to critical system files — a key indicator of compromise that antivirus and network monitoring tools often miss. Tripwire is a battle-tested open-source FIM tool that creates a cryptographic hash database of your filesystem and alerts you when files are added, modified, or deleted. On RHEL 9, Tripwire […]

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How to Monitor MariaDB Performance with mytop on RHEL 10 — step-by-step RHEL 10 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Monitor MariaDB Performance with mytop on RHEL 10

Introduction RHEL 10 ships with a stable, security-hardened base that makes deploying monitor mariadb performance with mytop both straightforward and auditable. This tutorial covers the complete procedure for how to Monitor MariaDB Performance with mytop on RHEL 10, including dnf module streams where applicable, systemd unit management, and the firewalld rules required for network-facing services. […]

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How to Set Up a Certificate Authority with OpenSSL on RHEL 9 — step-by-step RHEL 9 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Set Up a Certificate Authority with OpenSSL on RHEL 9

A private Certificate Authority (CA) lets you issue and manage TLS certificates for internal services without paying a public CA for every certificate. On RHEL 9, OpenSSL provides all the tools needed to build a two-tier CA hierarchy: a root CA (kept offline and highly protected) and an intermediate CA (used for day-to-day signing). This […]

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How to Install HashiCorp Vault for Secrets Management on RHEL 9 — step-by-step RHEL 9 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Install HashiCorp Vault for Secrets Management on RHEL 9

HashiCorp Vault is an open-source secrets management platform that provides secure storage, access control, and auditing for sensitive data such as API keys, passwords, certificates, and encryption keys. Instead of hardcoding secrets in application configs or environment variables, applications request them from Vault at runtime using short-lived tokens or AppRole credentials. This tutorial covers installing […]

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How to Configure MongoDB Authentication on RHEL 10 — step-by-step RHEL 10 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Configure MongoDB Authentication on RHEL 10

Introduction RHEL 10 ships with a stable, security-hardened base that makes deploying configure mongodb authentication both straightforward and auditable. This tutorial covers the complete procedure for how to Configure MongoDB Authentication on RHEL 10, including dnf module streams where applicable, systemd unit management, and the firewalld rules required for network-facing services. Prerequisites You will need: […]

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How to Install MongoDB 8 on RHEL 10 — step-by-step RHEL 10 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Install MongoDB 8 on RHEL 10

Introduction RHEL 10 ships with a stable, security-hardened base that makes deploying install mongodb 8 both straightforward and auditable. This tutorial covers the complete procedure for how to Install MongoDB 8 on RHEL 10, including dnf module streams where applicable, systemd unit management, and the firewalld rules required for network-facing services. Prerequisites Before you begin, […]

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How to Configure PAM (Pluggable Authentication Modules) on RHEL 9 — step-by-step RHEL 9 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Configure PAM (Pluggable Authentication Modules) on RHEL 9

PAM (Pluggable Authentication Modules) is the framework that sits between Linux applications and the underlying authentication mechanisms. Almost every program that authenticates users on RHEL 9 — SSH, su, sudo, login, and graphical sessions — goes through PAM. By configuring PAM you can enforce password complexity requirements, lock accounts after failed login attempts, set resource […]

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How to Install and Configure AIDE on RHEL 9 — step-by-step RHEL 9 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Install and Configure AIDE on RHEL 9

AIDE (Advanced Intrusion Detection Environment) is an open-source file integrity monitoring tool that detects unauthorized changes to files on a Linux system. It creates a cryptographic baseline database of your file system and compares the current state against that baseline on every check, alerting you to any additions, deletions, or modifications. AIDE is recommended by […]

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How to Back Up MariaDB with mariabackup on RHEL 10 — step-by-step RHEL 10 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Back Up MariaDB with mariabackup on RHEL 10

Introduction Setting up back up mariadb with mariabackup on a RHEL 10 server is a common task for system administrators, DevOps engineers, and site reliability engineers. This guide explains how to Back Up MariaDB with mariabackup on RHEL 10, with all the commands you need, the SELinux and firewalld considerations to keep in mind, and […]

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How to Set Up MySQL Master-Replica Replication on RHEL 10 — step-by-step RHEL 10 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Set Up MySQL Master-Replica Replication on RHEL 10

Introduction RHEL 10 ships with a stable, security-hardened base that makes deploying set up mysql master-replica replication both straightforward and auditable. This tutorial covers the complete procedure for how to Set Up MySQL Master-Replica Replication on RHEL 10, including dnf module streams where applicable, systemd unit management, and the firewalld rules required for network-facing services. […]

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