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How to Create an Intranet with OpenVPN on Ubuntu 16.04 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Create an Intranet with OpenVPN on Ubuntu 16.04

Intranets are private networks created by organizations to ease communication and data transfers. In this tutorial you’ll configure services that are only available to clients who are connected to the VPN, including file shares and a web site, and you’ll learn how to manage access to those resources. When you’re done, you’ll have a basic intranet you can easily expand to meet your needs.

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How To Encrypt OpenLDAP Connections Using STARTTLS — step-by-step Security tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Encrypt OpenLDAP Connections Using STARTTLS

OpenLDAP provides an LDAP directory service that is flexible and well-supported. However, out-of-the-box, the server itself communicates over an unencrypted web connection. In this guide, we will demonstrate how to encrypt connections to OpenLDAP by configuring an LDAP…

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How To Harden OpenSSH on Ubuntu 18.04 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Harden OpenSSH on Ubuntu 18.04

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 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 CentOS 7 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Host a Website with Caddy on CentOS 7

[Caddy](https://caddyserver.com/) is a new web server which can be used in place of Apache or Nginx to serve websites. It has been created with ease of use in mind and has become a common choice for developers who want to quickly run a website without working out difficult configuration files. In this tutorial, you will install and configure Caddy. After following this tutorial, you will have a simple working website served using HTTP/2 and a secure TLS connection.

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How to Install Bro on Ubuntu 16.04 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Install Bro on Ubuntu 16.04

Bro is an open-source network analysis framework and security monitoring application. It brings together some of the best features of OSSEC and osquery into one nice package. In this article, you’ll install Bro from source on Ubuntu 16.04 in standalone mode.

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