security

How To Create an SSH CA to Validate Hosts and Clients with Ubuntu — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Create an SSH CA to Validate Hosts and Clients with Ubuntu

When dealing with an extensive infrastructure and many team members, managing SSH keys for authentication can become unwieldy. However, SSH can utilize certificates in order to sign and validate user and host credentials to allow a seamless experience. In this guide, we’ll learn how to set this up using three Ubuntu 12.04 VPS instances.

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How To Harden OpenSSH on Ubuntu 20.04 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Harden OpenSSH on Ubuntu 20.04

Linux servers are often administered remotely using SSH by connecting to an OpenSSH server, which is the default SSH server software used within Ubuntu, Debian, CentOS, FreeBSD, and most other Linux/BSD-based systems. In this tutorial, you will harden your Ubuntu 20.04 OpenSSH server by using different configuration options to help ensure that remote access to your server is as secure as possible.

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How To Host a Website with Caddy on Ubuntu 16.04 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Host a Website with Caddy on Ubuntu 16.04

[Caddy](https://caddyserver.com/) is a web server that was created with ease of use in mind. It’s become a common choice for developers who want to quickly run a website without working out difficult configuration files. In this tutorial, you will build and install Caddy from source, configure it using a `Caddyfile`, install Caddy plugins, and learn how to update your installation of Caddy when a new version is released.

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How To Install and Use Bastille To Harden an Ubuntu 12.04 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Install and Use Bastille To Harden an Ubuntu 12.04

In this the cloud provider article, using Bastille, we are going to enhance the security of our system and greatly power up our knowledge and understanding of Linux system hardening by analyzing what Bastille in essence aims to teach with its thorough guide notes as we analyze various aspects of the process.

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How To Install DenyHosts on CentOS 6 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Install DenyHosts on CentOS 6

DenyHosts is a security tool written in python that monitors server access logs to prevent brute force attacks on a virtual private server. The program works by banning IP addresses that exceed a certain number of failed login attempts. This tutorial explains how to install denyhosts, how to whitelist your IP address, and where to find the denyhosts configuration file. It is written for CentOs.

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How To Optimize Your Tomcat Installation on Ubuntu 14.04 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Optimize Your Tomcat Installation on Ubuntu 14.04

Tomcat is a popular implementation of the Java Servlet and JavaServer Pages technologies. It is released by the Apache Software Foundation under the popular Apache open source license. Its powerful features, favorable license, and great community makes it one of the best and most preferred Java servlets.

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