vsftpd is a GPL licensed FTP server for UNIX systems, including Linux. It is secure and extremely fast. It is stable. Don’t take my word for it, though. Below, we will see evidence supporting all three assertions. We will also see a list of a few important sites which are happily using vsftpd. This demonstrates […]
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Installing Apache on CentOS Check to see if apache is installed: [root@K ~]# rpm -q httpd httpd-2.2.3-7.el5.centos If not just type “yum install httpd” and when the install is done, start apache: [root@K ~]# service httpd start Starting httpd: [ OK ] Note: The default document root is “/var/www/html/”.
Generally when we login to VSFTPD using our username and password, it’s transmitted in simple/clear text, which is considered as insecure. we can configure VSFTPD server to use OpenSSl, so that all the details are encrypted during the transfers. ###install OpenSSL yum install openssl ###Generate a Certificate openssl req -x509 -nodes -days 365 -newkey rsa:1024 […]
Today i try to make script for installing the asterisk .facing bit errors on Issues .I searched Google i came to know need to install kernal-devel for my system If you are running the standard kernel (for example), you can install the kernel-devel package by: [root@kartook]# yum install kernel-devel You can use this command […]
This howto explains howto install Google Chrome Web browser on Fedora and CentOs.Best way to install and keep up-to-date with Google Chrome browser is use Google’s own YUM repository. Enable Google YUM repository Add following to /etc/yum.repos.d/google.repo file: 32-bit [google] name=Google – i386 baseurl=http://dl.google.com/linux/rpm/stable/i386 enabled=1 gpgcheck=1 gpgkey=https://dl-ssl.google.com/linux/linux_signing_key.pub 64-bit [google64] name=Google – x86_64 baseurl=http://dl.google.com/linux/rpm/stable/x86_64 enabled=1 gpgcheck=1 […]
Allowing the root user to login directly is a major security issue, we’ll show you how to disable it so you can still login as root but just not directly, reducing the security issue. This will force a hacker to have to guess 2 seperate passwords to gain root access. (you do have 2 seperate […]
How to encrypt text file in Linux (VIM) It is very easy to encrypt a text file in Linux, VIM text editor can be used to achieve it.. vim -x [file name] [kartook@Nilas ~]$ vim -x kartook.txt This will prompt us to enter encryption key (password) Enter encryption key : ****** Enter same key again: […]
Display the date: Simply type the date command to display the current date: # date Output: Fri Mar 12 12:44:29 CST 2010 To set/change date: To set the date, you need to simply use the date command followed by the year, month, day, hour, minute, and second … all numeric and no spaces. To […]
At a shell or command (cmd for windows) prompt you type all one 1 single line: mysql -u DB_USER_NAME -p[PASSWORD] DB_NAME -h DB_SERVER with the following replacements of the terms above: * Replace DB_SERVER with the correct database servername or IP address * Replace DB_USER_NAME with your mysql username. * Replace DB_NAME with your mysql […]