When you run any command as root, using sudo, the password is remembered for 15 minutes by default. If you want to change the time that the password is cached, open the terminal (as root) and run: [precode]nano /etc/sudoers [/precode] Search…
Here is something I stumbled upon some time ago and did put it on my “To do later when I have more time” list. It’s nothing that will change the world as we know it, but it will give you…
From all the different VPS providers I have tried I’ve most often only used the default mirrors that are installed when the VPS is provisioned which sometimes is not the closest one. You can and update this to the geographically…
I was about to setup another PPTPd on one a new VPS that I got and i have always used a script that used to be @ http://www.putdispenserhere.com/, but the site was down so after a little investigation (google cache)…
In later versions of debian-based systems there’s a command named “apt-file”, it is used to determine which installation package a certain file can be found in. This can for example be used when something is missing when you compile from…
With the amount of SSH brute force attacks, securing SSH is more important than ever. Here are a few methods you can consider to further harden your SSH installation. Default Settings First of all, we look att the default settings…
Haven’t we all been there when we have put so many hours in completing the perfect installation? Then we do it all over again with the next vps/server? There actually is a pretty nice feature to get a list of…
[alert style=”green”]This tutorial is originally written by: Remy Van Elst @ www.raymii.org (original post here)[/alert] This is a guide on setting up a IPSEC/L2TP vpn on Ubuntu 12.10 using Openswan as the IPsec server, xl2tpd as the l2tp provider…
Box.com (formerly known as box.net) is an online file sharing and Cloud content management service for enterprise companies. With a recent promotion you could get as much as 50GB of storage space and what better thing to do then to…
One of my favourite quickstart scripts is Minstall, a helpful script to use on your freshly installed VPS. With Minstall you can remove unnecessary services and install commonly used services, it will let you start with a low-mem using VPS. The readme…
