Grsecurity on Debian

On August 19, 2011, in Debian, by mike

If you do not know yet what is grsec / grsecurity, a good starting point is http://grsecurity.net/. For linux, grsecurity is a “Holy Grail” in security. In addition, it will get rid of a problem that has linux and that irritates me me: ps aux (after any user can see all processes.) In this short [...]

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Debian DHCP server installation and configuration

On August 19, 2011, in Debian, by mike

Installing and configuring dhcpd server on Debian (Lenny) ## Install DHCP server for automatic IP assignment apt-get update apt-get install dhcp3-server ## Remove original config file and set the IP address for eth1 (internal network card) rm /etc/dhcp3/dhcpd.conf pico /etc/network/interfaces # —————————————— # ## Example configuration: (no eth0) auto eth1 iface eth1 inet static address [...]

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VPN Server on Debian Lenny

On August 17, 2011, in Debian, by mike

Installation and setup for a VPN server on Debian Lenny in few minutes # Install pptpd apt-get install pptpd # Turn on IP Forwarding sysctl-w net.ipv4.ip_forward = 1 # We set the permanent IP forwarding pico /etc/sysctl.conf # Remove the comment line “net.ipv4.ip_forward = 1″ # Configure pptpd # Example: 10.0.1.1 LOCALIP remoteip 10.0.0.3-10.0.0.200 # [...]

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Installing Apache and PHP on Debian

On August 17, 2011, in Debian, by mike

This is a tutorial for beginners extremely small: In this short tutorial I will show you how to install apache and php on Debian in just 4 minutes. Setting the example was done on a virtual machine.   root@example:~# apt-get install apache2 root@example:~# apt-get install php5 php5-cli php5-cgi php5-curl php5-common php5-gd php5-mcrypt php5-mysql php5-tidy libapache2-mod-php5 [...]

WebDAV On Debian Lenny

On November 5, 2010, in Debian, by mike

I will  use  Debian Lenny server with lighttpd  and the IP address 192.168.10.100. Step 1 Installing WebDAV module, lighttpd and apache2-utils packageif is not installed by executing: aptitude install lighttpd lighttpd-mod-webdav apache2-utils Make sure that the directory /var/run/lighttpd is owned by the www-data user and group,this directory will contain an SQLite database needed by WebDAV: [...]

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Phpmyadmin security on debian

On October 19, 2010, in Debian, by mike

We will protect our phpmyadmin installation on ISPConfig3 server by: .htpasswd file an alias for /phpmyadmin Step 1 Login into your ISPConfig3 server as root and type: cd /usr/share/phpmyadmin htpasswd -c .htpasswd username htpasswd will create the .htpasswd file and add “username” to list of authorized users. The program will initially prompt you for a [...]

SSH Configuration in Debian

On September 16, 2010, in Debian, by mike

Ssh (Secure Shell) is a program for logging into a remote machine and for executing commands on a remote machine. It provides secure encrypted communications between two untrusted hosts over an insecure network. X11 connections and arbitrary TCP/IP ports can also be forwarded over the secure channel. It can be used to provide applications with [...]

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