As part of the Best Security Practices, it is recommended to disable all services that are not required for normal operation to prevent the vulnerabilities exploitation of these services. These are the following services that...
Tag - ftp
1. FTP & Telnet daemons are controlled by the inetd, so to simply stop the service, just comment the lines under /etc/inetd.conf ftp stream tcp6 nowait root /usr/lbin/ftpd ftpd -l telnet stream tcp6 nowait root...
I had the chance to work as a systems administrator in an e-commerce company and they have Linux dedicated servers leased/purchase from a hosting provider. Dedicated servers compared to a shared hosting is you have full control...
In this tutorial, we will be cloning PC desktop machines using an opensource tool called “G4U”. g4u (“ghosting for unix”) is a NetBSD-based bootfloppy/CD-ROM that allows easy cloning of PC harddisks to...
The procedure below was tested successfully on CentOS. The same thing was also implemented on my BSD box and works as well. Squid is a caching proxy for the Web supporting HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, and more. It reduces bandwidth and...
Here are the steps in installing AWstats on Apache Web Server as your web log analyzer and statistics: STEPS: Assuming VirtualHost setting is already added on the httpd.conf, and the log is customized already for a combined...
* Setting up ftp via vsftpd in linux The VSFTPD (Very Secure FTP Server Deamon) is one of the most commonly used FTP servers under Linux and comes with most Linux distributions. This article will help you install and configure...
This is the list of commonly used commands in systems administration. Clocks hwclock Manage hardware clock. netdate Set clock according to host’s clock. rdate Manage time server. zdump Print list of time zones. zic Create...
These commands will work with most (if not all) distributions of Linux as well as most (?) implementations of Unix. Communication ftp – File Transfer Protocol. login – Sign on. rlogin – Sign on to remote...