How To Set Up Multi-Factor Authentication for SSH on CentOS 8

James Ensor 5wire, CentOS, Security, Servers, Tutorial 3 June 2021
This tutorial will teach you, step-by-step, how to set up multi-factor authentication for SSH on CentOS 8.
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How To Set Up SSH Keys on CentOS 8

James Ensor 5wire, CentOS, Security, Servers 31 May 2021
This tutorial will teach you how to set up SSH Keys on a server running CentOS 8. SSH, or secure shell, is an encrypted protocol used to administer and communicate with servers. When working with…
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How To Enable SFTP Without Shell Access on CentOS 7

James Ensor 5wire, CentOS, Security, Support, Tutorial 21 January 2018
Introduction SFTP stands for SSH File Transfer Protocol. As its name suggests, it’s a secure way of transferring files to a server using an encrypted SSH connection. Despite the name, it’s a completely different protocol…
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What is SSH? SSH Essentials, and how to use SSH

James Ensor 5wire, Blog, CentOS, Security, Servers, Tutorial 21 January 2018
Introduction SSH is a secure protocol used as the primary means of connecting to Linux servers remotely. It provides a text-based interface by spawning a remote shell. After connecting, all commands you type in your…
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How To Protect SSH With Fail2Ban on CentOS 7

James Ensor 5wire, Security, Servers, Support, Tutorial, VPS 16 August 2017
Introduction While connecting to your server through SSH can be very secure, the SSH daemon itself is a service that must be exposed to the Internet to function properly. This comes with some inherent risk…
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How To Encrypt Tomcat 8 Connections with Apache or Nginx on CentOS 7

James Ensor 5wire, CentOS, Servers, Support, Tutorial 15 August 2017
What is Apache Tomcat and why are we bothering to encrypt it? Apache Tomcat, or ‘Tomcat Server,’ is a web server and servlet container, usefully designed to serve Java applications. It is a very flexible…
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How To Configure SSH Key-Based Authentication on a Linux Server

James Ensor 5wire, CentOS, Servers, Support, Tutorial 15 August 2017
Introduction SSH, or secure shell, is an encrypted protocol used to administer and communicate with servers. When working with a Linux server, chances are, you will spend most of your time in a terminal session…
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How to Install cPanel on your Virtual Server – CentOS 6, CentOS 7

James Ensor 5wire, CentOS, cpanel, Tutorial 14 January 2017
cPanel is a the most popular application that enables users to administer servers using a GUI interface instead of traditional command line. cPanel is straight forward to install, but sometimes can take a couple of…
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BASH Exploit can take control of your server, experts warn bigger than Heartbleed

James Ensor Blog, cpanel 25 September 2014
A newly discovered security bug in a widely used piece of Linux software called “Bash” could pose a bigger threat to computer users than the “Heartbleed” bug that previously caused wide spread panic amoung system…
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How to Install NginxCP on cPanel/WHM Server

James Ensor Blog, cpanel, Tutorial 11 July 2014
Nginx is a fantastic, free, open-source, high-performance HTTP server and reverse proxy. It is one of the most popular tools used to power many websites, and can be implemented quite easily on a new server…
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