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  • How to Manage SSH Keys for Linux Machines

    SSH keys grant users access to critical systems such as cloud and on-premise servers and network devices. Typically, these are systems that should only be accessed by authorized users, and no one else. Proper management of these keys is therefore essential to ensure that the SSH keys are in the right hands and used in accordance with the best security practices.

  • The Hive (Security Incident Response Platform) - Unixcop the Unix / Linux the admins deams

    This page is a step by step installation and configuration guide to get an TheHive 4 instance up and running. This guide is illustrated with examples for Debian packages based systems and for installation from binary packages.

  • Setup X-pack Security on Elasticsearch and Kibana - Unixcop the Unix / Linux the admins deams

    X-Pack is an Elastic Stack extension that provides security, alerting, monitoring, reporting, machine learning, and many other capabilities. By default, when you install Elasticsearch, X-Pack is installed.

    The growing popularity of Elasticsearch has made both Elasticsearch and Kibana targets for hackers and ransomware, so it is important never to leave your Elasticsearch cluster unprotected.

    From Elasticsearch Version 6.8 and onwards, X Pack Basic License (free) includes security in the standard Elasticsearch version, while prior to that it was a paid for feature.

  • What are ephemeral certificates?

    This article is a short followup to my last article about cosign. I received many questions for my last article. The most common one was:

    “But wait! If the certificates are only valid for 30 minutes, how are my users supposed to validate my artifacts?”

    This is very common misconception and to be honest: I ran into the same trap at first. The terms “ephemeral” or “short-lived” do not refer to the signature validation. Instead, these terms refer to the certificate generation itself. The goal of short-lived certificates is to elimate the possible risks of private key leaks. Just imagine, we have a traditional long-lived certificate and a private key stored on one of our servers. If one attacker manages to steal this certificate and private key, maybe even years after the signature creation, the attacker will be able to craft a valid signature for their own malware with this certificate and key. With a short-lived certificate this would not be possible, because even if the attacker has access to both (private key and certificate) the attacker will not be able to craft a valid signature for the artifact, because the certificate has expired. The users are still able to validate the originally signed artifact, because the signature of this artifact has been created in the valid time frame of the certificate.

  • Ncat Linux command

    Hello friends. Knowing the Linux terminal and its commands is a basic task of any sysadmin or DevOps. Therefore it is always good from time to time to know new commands and their utilities. This will allow us to have new functions that can solve a problem at any time. So, in this post, you will learn about the ncat command.

  • How To Increase Disk Storage Size In VirtualBox Or VMware

    VirtualBox makes it simple to create virtual machines. When you create a virtual machine in VirtualBox or VMware, you must specify the size of the storage that will be used to install the operating system. I frequently allot a disc size that I later need to increase. In this article, we’ll learn to increase the Disk storage size of any Virtual machine in VirtualBox and VMware.

  • How get the best performance from the Nginx Server - Unixcop the Unix / Linux the admins deams

    You can tune almost any setting, but this post concentrates on the few settings for which tuning benefits the most users. There are settings that we recommend you change only if you have a deep understanding of NGINX and Linux. So, you will know How get the best performance from the Nginx Server

    HI Guys !, In this post we basically see the NGINX tuning using it’s configuration file which is situated at /etc/nginx/nginx.conf

    NGINX is well known as a high‑performance load balancer, cache, and web server, powering over 40% of the busiest websites in the world. For most use cases, default NGINX and Linux settings work well, but achieving optimal performance sometimes requires a bit of tuning. This blog post discusses some of the NGINX and Linux settings to consider when tuning a system.

  • How to Upgrade to AlmaLinux 8.5 - LinuxCapable

    AlmaLinux 8.5 is finally here and is codenamed Arctic Sphynx. The new version of the incoming AlmaLinux 8.5 is filled with many improvements such as Nginx 1.20, Node.js 16, Ruby 3.0, PHP 7.4.19, and many more new module streams and enhancements. Also included are an enhanced Cockpit web console and support for the recently released OpenJDK 17.

    Currently, this is in beta status and should not be installed or upgraded on production servers/systems or critical working environments. However, if you are game enough to try the new release, it is worth checking out.

    In the following tutorial, you will get a step-by-step walkthrough of how to upgrade an existing AlmaLinux 8.0 system to 8.5.

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today's howtos

  • How to install go1.19beta on Ubuntu 22.04 – NextGenTips

    In this tutorial, we are going to explore how to install go on Ubuntu 22.04 Golang is an open-source programming language that is easy to learn and use. It is built-in concurrency and has a robust standard library. It is reliable, builds fast, and efficient software that scales fast. Its concurrency mechanisms make it easy to write programs that get the most out of multicore and networked machines, while its novel-type systems enable flexible and modular program constructions. Go compiles quickly to machine code and has the convenience of garbage collection and the power of run-time reflection. In this guide, we are going to learn how to install golang 1.19beta on Ubuntu 22.04. Go 1.19beta1 is not yet released. There is so much work in progress with all the documentation.

  • molecule test: failed to connect to bus in systemd container - openQA bites

    Ansible Molecule is a project to help you test your ansible roles. I’m using molecule for automatically testing the ansible roles of geekoops.

  • How To Install MongoDB on AlmaLinux 9 - idroot

    In this tutorial, we will show you how to install MongoDB on AlmaLinux 9. For those of you who didn’t know, MongoDB is a high-performance, highly scalable document-oriented NoSQL database. Unlike in SQL databases where data is stored in rows and columns inside tables, in MongoDB, data is structured in JSON-like format inside records which are referred to as documents. The open-source attribute of MongoDB as a database software makes it an ideal candidate for almost any database-related project. This article assumes you have at least basic knowledge of Linux, know how to use the shell, and most importantly, you host your site on your own VPS. The installation is quite simple and assumes you are running in the root account, if not you may need to add ‘sudo‘ to the commands to get root privileges. I will show you the step-by-step installation of the MongoDB NoSQL database on AlmaLinux 9. You can follow the same instructions for CentOS and Rocky Linux.

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  • Self-host a Ghost Blog With Traefik

    Ghost is a very popular open-source content management system. Started as an alternative to WordPress and it went on to become an alternative to Substack by focusing on membership and newsletter. The creators of Ghost offer managed Pro hosting but it may not fit everyone's budget. Alternatively, you can self-host it on your own cloud servers. On Linux handbook, we already have a guide on deploying Ghost with Docker in a reverse proxy setup. Instead of Ngnix reverse proxy, you can also use another software called Traefik with Docker. It is a popular open-source cloud-native application proxy, API Gateway, Edge-router, and more. I use Traefik to secure my websites using an SSL certificate obtained from Let's Encrypt. Once deployed, Traefik can automatically manage your certificates and their renewals. In this tutorial, I'll share the necessary steps for deploying a Ghost blog with Docker and Traefik.