Its not enough to harden just Ubuntu. Its necessary to harden the rest of LAMP as well. So here is how I do it. Harden MYSQL sudo mysql_secure_installation answer Yes to all questions (but no need to change password) Harden PHP – and tune performance sudo apt-get install php5-suhosin sudo vi /etc/php5/apache2/php.ini uncomment this code or update setting max_execution_time =...
Checklist of things to do after installing Debian Gnome The first problem you have with a brand new linux (Debian/Ubuntu) install is the user is not setup in sudoers. So first thing: login as root su sudo adduser username sudo sudo vi /etc/sudoers give permissions to your new user – below root username ALL=(ALL:ALL) ALL alternately – unsecure username ALL=(ALL)...
Wireshark on Debian Privileges and Setup for non-Root User
https://wiki.debian.org/PulseAudio sudo rm -Rf ~/.pulse sudo rm -Rf ~/.pulse-cookie sudo rm -Rf /tmp/pulse-* sudo vi /etc/pulse/client.conf ; autospawn = no sudo service pulseaudio restart
df unmount fdisk -l dd if=debian-live-7.6.0-i386-standard.iso of=sdc bs=4M; sync
edit sudo vi /usr/share/vim/vim80/defaults.vim comment out “if has(‘mouse’)” set mouse=r“endif https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/318824/vim-cutpaste-not-working-in-stretch-debian-9
Credit for this fix belongs here but I have copied it here for ease of access Download the 64-bit .deb from: http://www.google.com/tools/dlpage/res/talkvideo/hangouts/ Create a tmp dir: mkdir tmp Extract the contents of the .deb to the tmp dir: dpkg-deb -x google-talkplugin_current_amd64.deb tmp Extract the control files: dpkg-deb –control google-talkplugin_current_amd64.deb tmp/DEBIAN Fix the dependency: sed -i "s/lib32v4l-0/libv4l-0/" tmp/DEBIAN/control Repackage the .deb:...
sudo vi /etc/apache2/conf.d/security ServerTokens Prod ServerSignature Off sudo vi /etc/apache2/sites-available/default Directory /var/www/html> Options -Indexes /Directory> https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/blog/rearden888-507430/howto-set-up-modsecurity-on-debian-7-35569/
Your ‘home’, ‘trash’, and ‘computer’ icons should now reappear on the desktop