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How To Create a Redundant Storage Pool Using GlusterFS on Ubuntu 20.04 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Create a Redundant Storage Pool Using GlusterFS on Ubuntu 20.04

GlusterFS is a network-attached storage filesystem that allows you to pool computing or storage resources of multiple machines. In turn, this lets you treat various computers as a single, more powerful unit. In this guide, you will create a redundant clustered storage array. This will provide functionality similar to a mirrored RAID configuration over the network.

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Ubuntu 20.04 — linux-gcp-5.8 — multiple vulnerabilities (20 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 20.04

Ubuntu 20.04 — linux-gcp-5.8 — multiple vulnerabilities (20 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟠 High   ⏱ 15–60 min  Last verified: 8 September 2021 Affected versions: Ubuntu 20.04 (focal) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Ubuntu Security Notice USN-5050-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2020-26558 CVE-2021-0129 CVE-2021-28691 CVE-2021-3564 CVE-2021-3573 CVE-2021-38208 CVE-2021-23134 CVE-2021-32399  +12 more Upstream summary: It was discovered that the bluetooth subsystem in the Linux kernel did not properly perform […]

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Ubuntu 20.04 SSH service not starting

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 5–30 min  Last verified: 7 September 2021 📖 ~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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How To Install MongoDB on Ubuntu 18.04 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Install MongoDB on Ubuntu 18.04

MongoDB is an open-source document database used commonly in modern web applications. It is classified as a NoSQL database because it does not rely on a traditional table-based relational database structure. Instead, it uses JSON-like documents with dynamic schemas. In this tutorial you’ll install MongoDB on an Ubuntu 18.04 server, test it, and learn how to manage it as a systemd service.

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Ubuntu 14.04 LTS fail2ban stops banning malicious IPs after log format change

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 5–30 min  Last verified: 6 September 2021 Affected versions: 14.04 📖 ~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 […]

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Ubuntu 16.04 LTS – OOM killer terminates critical services

🔴 Critical   ⏱ 5–30 min  Last verified: 6 September 2021 Affected versions: Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Ubuntu 16.04 Ubuntu 16.04.7 📖 ~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 […]

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How To Use PAM to Configure Authentication on an Ubuntu 12.04 VPS — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Use PAM to Configure Authentication on an Ubuntu 12.04 VPS

PAM, or Pluggable Authentication Modules, is a system for connecting authentication services to application requesting authentication, through the use of a consistent API. Authentication schemes can be switched out without having to reconfigure large amounts of code. In this guide, we will discuss how PAM works and give a basic explanation of how the system operates.

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Ubuntu 18.04 — policykit-1 — multiple vulnerabilities (7 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 18.04

Ubuntu 18.04 — policykit-1 — multiple vulnerabilities (7 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 6 September 2021 Affected versions: Ubuntu 18.04 (bionic) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Ubuntu Security Notice USN-5252-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2021-4034 CVE-2019-6133 CVE-2018-19788 CVE-2015-3218 CVE-2015-3255 CVE-2015-4625 CVE-2018-1116 Upstream summary: It was discovered that the PolicyKit pkexec tool incorrectly handled command-line arguments. A local attacker could use this […]

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Установка и обеспечение безопасности Redis в Ubuntu 20.04 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

Установка и обеспечение безопасности Redis в Ubuntu 20.04

Предыдущая версия данного обучающего руководства была написана Джастином Эллингвудом Redis — это быстрое хранилище данных типа «ключ‑значение», известное своей гибкостью, производительностью и…

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