If you read our previous article Easy Ubuntu Server Firewall, then you may have noted that on Ubuntu 16.04 the described method no longer works. This is due to systemd. In the article below we will walk through creating a persistent IPTables based firewall on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. First we need to install some required… Read More
If you have ever used Ubuntu Server prior to its newest release of 16.04, then you should be familiar with the dynamic MOTD. Previously, this is what is presented to the user in terminal when a log on occurs. This feature is very nice as it will give you a quick look at useful information…. Read More
This may seem trivial to some, but I swear I have been asked this question at least 1000 times. With that said, I think it is time to answer the below question for all. How do I convert my WordPress install to SSL? This task, while not necessarily difficult, is not as simple as just… Read More
Zarafa Collaboration Platform is the email server of choice for our new customers. With that said, we have a lot of these installations being maintained in production. Below is our second generation automation script to update Zarafa to the latest 7.2.x release for users who are not using apt-get. Note this script is a modified… Read More
This article is a follow up to our previous article Postfix Brute Force Prevention. If you are running Fail2ban on Debian or Ubuntu Server as described in our previous article, then you are aware that you will receive an email every time the Fail2ban service is stopped, started or restarted. While we would certainly like… Read More
In this article we are going to show you how to create a Debian Server Virtual Machine Template based on the work of Thomas Liske over at Templating Debian GNU/Linux. While our process is primarily based on Thomas’s work, we have opted to go the bash scripting route instead of installing the ovfdep tool. It… Read More
If you are running a mail server based on Postfix, than chances are good that at least once someone has tried to brute force a login to your server. Recently, we were involved in a complete server rebuild for a client moving from Ubuntu to Debian. Part of this build required locking down Postfix to… Read More
PuTTYtray is an improved version of PuTTY an SSH and telnet client, developed originally by Simon Tatham for the Windows platform and now available on Unix platforms, along with an xterm terminal emulator. It features some cosmetic changes, and a number of addons to make it more useful and much more fun to use. PuTTYtray… Read More
Over the past few months while testing some new servers running Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, we noticed that the Dynamic MOTD system seems to be outdated or completely broken when logging in via ssh. While this is a minor annoyance, it needed to be fixed. Initially we referenced our previous article Ubuntu 14.04 Outdated MOTD as… Read More
As was the case in our previous article Allow root SSH on Ubuntu 14.04, after installing a fresh new copy of Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, we found that once again (for better security) root ssh access was set to without-password by default . What that means to you is that if you are trying to ssh… Read More