Let’s update the Password Authentication parameter in the ssh service config file: 1vim /etc/ssh/sshd_config Hey, what? You can't even find the sshd service? Install it then: 1sudo apt update 2sudo apt install openssh-server In the /etc/ssh/sshd_config file, uncomment this line: 1#PasswordAuthentication yes Boom! Done. …

Back up the current sources.list first. 1sudo cp /etc/apt/sources.list /etc/apt/sources.list.backup Well, run this command then. 1sudo echo "deb http://http.kali.org/kali kali-rolling main non-free contrib" > /etc/apt/sources.list Now you can run apt update command! Happy networking! 😎

First things first. Let’s check the directory structure of the app. A Full Stack MEVN Application Let’s take a look into the DB image first. 1FROMmongo:latest23WORKDIR/app4COPY . /app56ENV MONGO_INITDB_ROOT_USERNAME=root 7ENV MONGO_INITDB_ROOT_PASSWORD=password 8 9EXPOSE27017I thought importing dump data should be …

I think this is really important in practical docker battle field. 🙂 Let’s go for the docker-compose.yml first. 1version:'3'23services:4nginx:5image:nginx:1.15-alpine6restart:unless-stopped7volumes:8- ./data/nginx:/etc/nginx/conf.d9- ./data/certbot/conf:/etc/letsencrypt10- …

Let’s go for our docker-compose.yml first. 1version:'3'23services:4wp:5image:wordpress:latest6ports:7- ${IP}:80:808volumes:9- ./php.conf.ini:/usr/local/etc/php/conf.d/conf.ini10- …

Launch OpenVPN client as a daemon. Here I assume you already have your own cert file - filename.ovpn. 🙂 Modify its file extension to conf like so: 1mv filename.ovpn filename.conf Put your cert file inside /etc/openvpn directory like so: 1mv /path/to/filename.conf /etc/openvpn/ OpenVPN client service name would be …

To run a container from an image: 1docker container run -it --rm ubuntu /bin/bash -t: terminal inside -i: (STDIN) grabbing –rm: remove container automatically when process exits –name: name the container or daemon -d: daemonize the container running To list all containers: 1docker container ps -a To start or stop …

Today I am going to follow up the procedures to setup standard LAMP stack on CentOS 7. For the latest version of phpMyAdmin: 1rpm --import /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY* 2yum -y install epel-release For MariaDB: 1yum -y install mariadb-server mariadb 2systemctl enable --now mariadb 3mysql_secure_installation For Apache: …

Simply follow this script: 1apt update -y 2apt install software-properties-common -y 3add-apt-repository universe -y 4add-apt-repository ppa:certbot/certbot -y 5apt update -y 6install certbot python-certbot-nginx -y 7certbot --nginx Your server should now be all set to relay on https. 🙂 As for Apache, you could refer …

Simply follow this script below: 1yum install epel-release -y 2yum install certbot python-certbot-apache mod_ssl -y 3certbot --apache Create a cron job which renews certification once a week. 1crontab -e 10 0,12 * * * python -C 'import random; import time; time.sleep(random.random() * 3600)' && certbot …

First off, install nginx on the server machine. 1yum update 2yum install epel-release 3yum install nginx Edit the nginx config file then. 1cd /etc/nginx/nginx.conf 2vim nginx.conf Edit the file like this: 1server_name domain.com; If you are not going to use domain name, a public ip address would also work instead of …

PM2 is a process manager for nodejs apps. It daemonizes apps built with nodejs, which means run-as-service. Let’s install PM2 using npm. 1npm install -g [email protected] Now you can start your app using pm2 like so: 1pm2 start app.js Next, register the app as startup process. 1pm2 startup systemd 2pm2 save You can check the …

Prerequisites for a vhost setup: 1chown -R apache:apache /path_to/site_root Set the permission of the root directory to 755, you may already know. 🙂 Well, let’s create a vhost config file before you edit it. 1cd /etc/httpd/conf.d 2vim domain_name.conf Now, grab this content to your config file: 1<VirtualHost …

I recently came up with this error on one of my OpenVPN servers. "OpenVPN - Socket bind failed on local address [AF_INET] IP:#portnum: Cannot assign requested address" Let me share how I did fix it. First off, check this openvpn’s default init script : [email protected] 1sudo grep After …

This is a manual version of ssh-copy-id command. Let’s say that we are logging in to server named B from a local machine named A. First off, generate authentication key pair without passphrase on the local machine A: 1ssh-keygen -t rsa Now you got a public key of your local machine, of which path is: 1cd ~/.ssh 2cat …

In some situations, you are given only a ppk file for access to a cloud server. You know, however, it's for Putty on windows, not for OpenSSH client which might be the most familiar to you.🤔 I am gonna introduce a method to convert a ppk file into a pem file so that you can login to the linux server with ssh command …

Thanks to Stan's great work, it became so delightful to run your own secure and stable private VPN server. It's never been so easy. 👍 Download the installation script like this: 1wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Angristan/openvpn-install/master/openvpn-install.sh Change file permission to executable like this: …

CI/CD Build History You might have ever been stuck in continuous deployment with codeship. Hacking principle of CI/CD is all the same in other platforms like CircleCI, Codefresh, TeamCity, etc. Okay, let’s get started. First off, connect your version control app such as github, gitlab or bitbucket to the Codeship.\ …

Auto Login With SSH Today I am going to share you how to login to a cloud server without using password. Let’s say there is a server and your local machine, assuming you can login to the server using some kind of credentials. First off, you should generate a new local public key on your local machine. Chdir to the …

Webmin Login Screen First off, access to the server via ssh with root. Install dependencies with this command: 1yum -y install wget perl perl-Net-SSLeay openssl perl-IO-Tty perl-Encode-Detect perl-Data-Dumper unzip Create a repo file like this: 1nano /etc/yum.repos.d/webmin.repo 1[Webmin] 2name=Webmin Distribution …