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How to password protect a apache alias Alias /seagate750/ "/mnt/seagate750/" AllowOverride All Options Indexes MultiViews Allow from all Note, must goto http:server/seagate750/ (Must have that last /) make /mnt/seagate750/.htaccess AuthType Basic AuthName "Password" AuthUserFile /mnt/seagate750/.htpasswd require valid-user make /mnt/seagate750/.htpasswd mreschke:blahblahblah replace that with the correct password, you can find a apache password generator online, just enter mreschke as the user M...

For this to work the servers /etc/ssh/sshd_config must have RSAAuthentication yes PubkeyAuthentication yes On the local client, in a terminal, as the user you normally use to ssh with (like your normal username) ssh-keygen -t rsa This generates an RSA key for SSHv2 (v2 is the -t paramater) This creates 2 files in your /home/username/.ssh/ folder id_rsa, which is the private key id_rsa.pub which is the public key Now we have to get that public key file on to the server your are connecting to wit...

A quick topic describing how to create and manage linux users and groups from the command line. This topic only describes what linux users and groups are and how to manage them. It does not explain security and permissions for those users. Please see for help on that topic. > Remember to use --help (example usermod --help to see a help list for that command Linux is a multi-user operating system. The linux user system uses users and groups to define a users role on the system. A user...

<p>This document describes a small portion of iptables and how to setup a basic firewall using iptables. There are many huge books on iptables so I cannot go into any sort of detail here. If you want to create a more advanced firewall, then I suggest installing shorewall and reading the documentation <a class="urlLink" href="http://www.shorewall.net/Introduction.html" onclick="window.open(this.href, '_blank'); return false;">http://www.shorewall.net/Introduction.html</a> about setting it up. I generally use shorewall on my systems and configure them using <a class="urlLink" href="http://www.webmin.com/" onclick="window.open(this.href, '_blank'); return false;">http://www.webmin.com/</a>.</p>

<h1 class="heading1" id="toc0">Deny Root Login</h1><a href="#top"><div class="heading_top"></div></a> <p><strong>Never allow root ssh access and make sure all users are disabled except the ones you want, I use KUser KDE User Manager, all users are disabled by default except root and your login username.</strong></p> <ol> <li>Open /etc/ssh/sshd_config</li> <li>There should be a line remmed that says #PermitRootLogin yes, unrem that and change to no</li> </ol> <h1 class="heading1" id="toc1">Different Ports and IPs</h1><a href="#top"><div class="heading_top"></div></a> <p>If your clients do not have SSH access (web hosting for example), a<br /> good way to secure your box is to run SSH on an unknown port and IP, so<br /> that people do not know your SSH port, so can't brute force it.</p>