Linux Tutorials on the topic “security”

  • How To Configure PureFTPd To Accept TLS Sessions On Fedora 14

    fedora Author: Falko TimmeTags: , , Comments: 0

    FTP is a very insecure protocol because all passwords and all data are transferred in clear text. By using TLS, the whole communication can be encrypted, thus making FTP much more secure. This article explains how to configure PureFTPd to accept TLS sessions on a Fedora 14 server.

  • How To Secure Your Ubuntu 10.10 Desktop With LinOTP 2

    ubuntu Author: cornelinuxTags: , , , Comments: 0

    How To Secure Your Ubuntu 10.10 Desktop With LinOTP 2 This howto will guide you to set up a LinOTP standalone one time password authentication backend on your Linux machine. This enables you to add two factor authentication with one time passwords to your desktop login. LinOTP is a modular OTP (one time password) solution, that supports many different OTP tokens. LinOTP is written in python, based on pylons and apache. It comes as open source licensed under the AGPLv3. Additional functionalities, maintenance and support can be licensed in an Enterprise Edition. This howto should run on Ubuntu 10.10 and Debian Squeeze.

  • How To Integrate ClamAV Into PureFTPd For Virus Scanning On Ubuntu 10.10

    ubuntu Author: Falko TimmeTags: , , Comments: 1

    How To Integrate ClamAV Into PureFTPd For Virus Scanning On Ubuntu 10.10 This tutorial explains how you can integrate ClamAV into PureFTPd for virus scanning on an Ubuntu 10.10 system. In the end, whenever a file gets uploaded through PureFTPd, ClamAV will check the file and delete it if it is malware.

  • How To Configure PureFTPd To Accept TLS Sessions On CentOS 5.5

    centos Author: Falko TimmeTags: , , Comments: 1

    How To Configure PureFTPd To Accept TLS Sessions On CentOS 5.5 FTP is a very insecure protocol because all passwords and all data are transferred in clear text. By using TLS, the whole communication can be encrypted, thus making FTP much more secure. This article explains how to configure PureFTPd to accept TLS sessions on a CentOS 5.5 server.

  • How To Set Up Kippo SSH Honeypot On CentOS 5.5

    centos Author: poustchiTags: , Comments: 1

    How To Set Up Kippo SSH Honeypot On CentOS 5.5 Kippo is a medium interaction SSH honeypot designed to log brute force attacks and, most importantly, the entire shell interaction performed by the attacker. Kippo is inspired, but not based on Kojoney. This tutorial shows how you can compile and install Kippo on a CentOS 5.5 server.

  • How To Install And Use MyDLP

    Author: sheltaTags: , , Comments: 3

    How To Install And Use MyDLP This document can be used as a guide to installation of MyDLP Appliance. It also describes the basic usage. MyDLP is an easy, simple and open DLP (data loss prevention) solution, licensed under GPLv3. MyDLP 1.0 is released on 10 November 2010. MyDLP Appliance is a distribution based on Ubuntu Server. The distribution comes as a easy to deploy key solution. Protecting customer records, securing confidential files, data flow enforcements... they are all achievable within 30 minutes.

  • How To Integrate ClamAV Into PureFTPd For Virus Scanning On OpenSUSE 11.3

    opensuse Author: Falko TimmeTags: , , Comments: 2

    How To Integrate ClamAV Into PureFTPd For Virus Scanning On OpenSUSE 11.3 This tutorial explains how you can integrate ClamAV into PureFTPd for virus scanning on an OpenSUSE 11.3 system. In the end, whenever a file gets uploaded through PureFTPd, ClamAV will check the file and delete it if it is malware.

  • Using Firewall Builder To Configure Cisco ASA & PIX

    Author: mikehornTags: , , Comments: 1

    Using Firewall Builder To Configure Cisco ASA & PIX Firewall Builder is a firewall configuration and management GUI that supports configuring a wide range of firewalls from a single application. Supported firewalls include Linux iptables, BSD pf, Cisco ASA/PIX, Cisco router access lists and many more. This tutorial is the second in a series of articles that walk through the basic steps of using Firewall Builder to configure each of the supported firewall platforms. In this tutorial we will configure Access Control Lists (ACL) on a Cisco ASA firewall.

  • Host Based Intrusion Detection - Samhain

    Author: thirddeepTags: , , , Comments: 1

    Host Based Intrusion Detection - Samhain This article describes in some detail how to install Samhain, the host based intrusion detection system. I am not going to ramble on about what host based intrusion detection is or why to use it, as there are plenty of articles already covering those subjects. This article is just to show you how to get Samhain up and running in a client / server configuration with a couple bells and whistles thrown in for fun.

  • WiKID + OpenLDAP + Freeradius Howto

    Author: nowenTags: , Comments: 0

    WiKID + OpenLDAP + Freeradius Howto I installed Openldap and freeradius on one (virtual) server and WiKID on another. We believe that this separation of duties is good security policy. In a way it also makes the setup easier because both WiKID and Freeradius listen on port 1812 of the localhost. Both servers are running Centos5.