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Regarding server security

Posted August 22, 2014 1.6k views

Hey fellas,

I’m fairly if not entirely new to this, so bear with me;

With the apps/images, is security taken care of, or must we make our own modifications with SELinux?

Thanks,

C.

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asb September 2, 2014

Hi!

Most of the images are pretty basic setups that should give you a building block to get up and running quickly on your projects. I would still recommend taking additional security measures before moving the server into production.

As a first step, I’d create a dedicated user and disable root login. Then, set up some basic firewalling. Also consider using something like fail2ban to protect your server from brute force attacks.

How To Protect SSH with fail2ban on Ubuntu 12.04
by Etel Sverdlov
fail2ban provides a way to automatically protect virtual servers from malicious behavior. This tutorial shows you how to install Fail2Ban, copy the Configuration File, configure the fail2ban defaults, and find out how to configure the ssh defaults. This tutorial describes the required steps to set up fail2ban on Ubuntu.
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