Prerequisite is a fresh remote server with Debian 9 Stretch installed and booted From remote terminal Block all traffic iptable -F iptables -P INPUT DROP iptables -P OUTPUT DROP iptables -P FORWARD DROP Create a User sudo useradd -d /home/username -m username Set the User’s Password sudo passwd username Add the User to the Admin Group sudo adduser username adm...
If you haven’t visited this hell yet, take a tour and read the insurance policy below. If you are currently in Google Account Recovery Hell and seeking help, this post should get you out and maybe keep you out. Or bookmark this as your Swiss Army Knife for Google Account Survival. But first a tour: quoting from a forum post...
I’m very surprised how few solutions (How To Guides) there are out there for this issue. If you don’t use FTP to upload to your server (for security reasons), here’s how to install extension in Joomla using SSH(Rsync). That tells me the Joomla community is largely OK with FTP and getting hacked because of it. (there are certainly no shortage...
Users and Groups Users are located in /etc/passwd Groups are located in /etc/group The administrative ROOT account is disabled by default in Ubuntu . If you wish to enable the root account, simply give it a password by typing sudo passwd To disable the root account sudo passwd -l root The initial user created by the Ubuntu installer is a...
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sudo vi /etc/apache2/mods-available/ssl.conf SSLHonorCipherOrder on SSLCipherSuite “EECDH+ECDSA+AESGCM EECDH+aRSA+AESGCM EECDH+ECDSA+SHA384 EECDH+ECDSA+SHA256 EECDH+aRSA+SHA384 EECDH+aRSA+SHA256 EECDH+aRSA+RC4 EECDH EDH+aRSA !RC4 !aNULL !eNULL !LOW !3DES !MD5 !EXP !PSK !SRP !DSS” SSLProtocol All -SSLv2 -SSLv3 SSLCompression Off
You do not want to uninstall Tracker (on a desktop) as there are dependencies you may want to keep/it makes sense to keep. But Disabling Tracker from auto-start on startup will save resources. Edit ALL tracker desktop files sudo vi /etc/xdg/autostart/tracker-* change this below line from =true to =false X-GNOME-Autostart-enabled=false Kill and Remove databases sudo tracker-control -r
sudo vi /etc/bluetooth/main.conf change to: InitiallyPowered = false But that is not enough sudo apt-get install rfkill sudo vi /etc/rc.local add line: rfkill block bluetooth That should do it. If not sudo vi /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf add lines: blacklist bluetooth blacklist btusb if not sudo vi /etc/init/bluetooth.override add line: manual
On Client sudo vi /etc/ssh/ssh_config add line ServerAliveInterval 100 On Server sudo vi /etc/ssh/sshd_config add lines ClientAliveInterval 30 TCPKeepAlive yes ClientAliveCountMax 99999 From command line per session ssh -o ConnectTimeout=10 ssh -o ConnectTimeout -o BatchMode=yes -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no ServerAliveInterval operates on the ssh layer. It will actually send data through ssh, so the TCP packet has encrypted data in and a...
This works. There are a lot of examples out there that don’t work. I found that an additional edit (bottom) made all the difference. These are the typical changes you’ll find online. https://gist.github.com/vancluever/d34b41eb77e6d077887c But here is the change that made all the difference for me. Edit all the tracker files and change X-GNOME-Autostart-enabled to False. re. sudo vi /etc/xdg/autostart/tracker-miner-apps.desktop X-GNOME-Autostart-enabled=false