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How To Create an ECC Certificate on Nginx for Debian 7 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Create an ECC Certificate on Nginx for Debian 7

Create an Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC) key pair for more efficient certificate encryption. ECC keys provide security equivalent to that of larger RSA keys while being smaller in size, reducing the resources needed on the server and offering faster performance for mobile devices.

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Como editar o arquivo sudoers — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

Como editar o arquivo sudoers

O comando sudo é útil para executar comandos com privilégios que estão geralmente fora do escopo do seu usuário. Este guia discutirá como editar o arquivo de configuração para personalizar a maneira como o sudo funciona.

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How To Install and Configure scponly on CentOS 7 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Install and Configure scponly on CentOS 7

scponly is a secure alternative to anonymous FTP. It gives the administrator the ability to setup a secure user account with restricted remote file access and without access to an interactive shell. With scponly you are giving the user remote access to download and upload specific files. They will not have an interactive shell, meaning they can’t execute commands. The user can only access the server via scp, sftp, or clients that support these protocols.

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How To Install and Secure phpMyAdmin on Ubuntu 14.04 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Install and Secure phpMyAdmin on Ubuntu 14.04

While many users require access to a database management system like MySQL, not all users feel comfortable interacting with the MySQL prompt on a daily basis. In this guide, we’ll discuss how to install and secure phpMyAdmin, a web management interface for MySQL, on an Ubuntu 14.04 server.

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How To Install Tinc and Set Up a Basic VPN on Ubuntu 14.04 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Install Tinc and Set Up a Basic VPN on Ubuntu 14.04

In this tutorial, we will go over how to use Tinc, an open source Virtual Private Network (VPN) daemon, to create a secure VPN that your servers can communicate on as if they were on a local network. We will also demonstrate how to use Tinc to set up a secure tunnel into a private network. We will be using Ubuntu 14.04 servers, but the configurations can be adapted for use with any other OS.

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