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My misconfiguration. I had placed the IP of my server in /etc/hosts as the domain name; but I was using CloudFlare and cURL was con…
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My misconfiguration. I had placed the IP of my server in /etc/hosts as the domain name; but I was using CloudFlare and cURL was con…
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Thought it might be good for others to know that these issues were resolved by simply upgrading Lynis to the latest :-)
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Thought it might be good for others to know that these issues were resolved by simply upgrading Lynis to the latest :-)
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I cannot use cURL against my new site, which is causing WordPress issues. Server is Ubuntu 18.04. Certificate came from CloudFlare and I get an A+ on SSLLabs (https://ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=securecoop.com&...
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My misconfiguration. I had placed the IP of my server in /etc/hosts as the domain name; but I was using CloudFlare and cURL was confused by the IP. Commented out this in /etc/hosts and all is well.
1.2.3.4 securecoop....
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Linux Commands
Ubuntu
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How long (approximately) would it take to restore a 10GB Ubuntu 1GB RAM image? I would test it but not able to at the moment.
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Hey friend,
This is a great question, thank you for asking it. The honest answer is that I can't say. I would like this to be within 1-3 minutes, and that may be a reliable average. With that said, it depends on the w...
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Backups
Ubuntu 18.04
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And yes, I have renamed /root/.digitalocean_password. Also does it from sudo. I set the password and flushed privileges yesterday.
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root@web01:~# mv /root/.digitaloceanpassword /root/.digitaloceanpassword.good
root...
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Hey friend,
This should be the correct functionality if logged in as the root system user. It needs no security from root, as root has full control over the system and packages anyway.
Jarland
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MySQL
Ubuntu 18.04
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I'm using this tutorial:
https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-perform-security-audits-with-lynis-on-ubuntu-16-04
But I cannot resolve these warnings:
! No password set for single mode [AUTH-9308] ...
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Thought it might be good for others to know that these issues were resolved by simply upgrading Lynis to the latest :-)
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Ubuntu
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Not sure which DNS records I need to create to achieve the following goals. Wildcards? @? CNAMEs? A records? MX? It's not clear how I should proceed. Please assist.
* I own three domains and want all records in all 3 ...
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Hey friend,
To best determine what each should be, I think it's best to break down what the record types are for. Each has it's use case. You already have MX handled, so let's talk about A records and CNAMEs:
A record...
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