#hardening Articles


  • 2016-03-18
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RH413 - Red Hat Server Hardening

I'm attending this training in a week or so. This post will be updated as I go through the sections I want to check out before the training starts. https://www.redhat.com/en/services/training/rh413-red-hat-server-hardening Track security updates Understand how Red Hat Enterprise Linux produces updates and how …

  • 2012-03-08
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password when starting a linux server in single-user mode

http://www.cromwell-intl.com/unix/linux-break-in-howto.html On RHEL 6.2-based systems (like Scientific Linux 6.2): edit /etc/sysconfig/init # Set to '/sbin/sulogin' to prompt for password on single-user mode # Set to '/sbin/sushell' otherwise Like this: SINGLE=/sbin/sulogin Then if you add an 's' to the …

  • 2011-07-27
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How to restrict access to your phpmyadmin

Went through the apache logs on my web-server and saw some access requests to my phpmyadmin page. It's probably a good idea to restrict access to this web based sql admin interface (in case there is an exploit I don't want somebody to use it on this). How to make …