Introduction Git is a distributed revision control and source code management system released in 2005 and distributed under GNU General Public License v.2. Git handles large amounts of data and possesses tracking capabilities which are non-dependent on network access or central server. This tutorial will cover the installation of Git on Debian 7. …
As with any Linux distributions, you need to be aware of the basic system administration concepts like authentication and configuration. It’s a wide range topic with different tools and configuration files. Here, in this tutorial, we will be exploring the tools for configuring authentication. That is, ‘passwd’ and ‘adduser’ to be precise. We will be…
This tutorial will introduce the basics of system administration, i.e. configuration and management of users and groups. Here, we will be discussing about viewing system users on Ubuntu. By the end of this tutorial, you will learn about the basic concepts behind user management, monitoring and authentication logging. We will be using Ubuntu 12.04 VPS…
Once you create a new server, you will need to make some configuration changes in order to make your server usable, secure and functioning. This is a tutorial on server set up and it covers the basics of setting up with Ubuntu 14.04. By the end of this tutorial, you will be able to: Set…
Nginx is a free and open-source, high performance web server software popular for its stability, simplicity in configuration and low resource consumption. Being a popular web server, many high traffic sites have been hosted using it. When compared to Apache, its considered to be more resource friendly. This tutorial will guide you to install Nginx…
Google provides an absolute open source software to protect your SSH server. Google Authenticator PAM module is a two factor authentication which can be used to connect to the server using the code from your smartphone. Before proceeding to securing SSH server, first you should install the Google Authenticator application on your smartphone. It is…
This tutorial guides you to do the initial server set up with Debian 7. By the end of this tutorial, you will be able to: Create a new user Set up root privileges for the new user Access your server with new user Root Login As you know, root login is not meant for regular…
Introduction IPTables is a standard firewall utility built for most Linux distributions. It is used to configure firewall rules, in order to control traffic from internet and computers on a network. Firewall setup is inevitable for securing any modern operating system. There are various firewall configuring tools for Linux distributions. In this tutorial, we…