CentOS 6

A new vulnerability, CVE-2018-1111, has been recently announced; it allows a malicious DHCP server to send a specially crafted response that can run privileged commands on a DHCP client that is running dhclient. This affects dhclient on both Centos Linux 6 and CentOS Linux 7 systems. RedHat have released an updated to ...

What is a reverse proxy? A reverse proxy accepts connections and then routes them to the appropriate backend server. For example, if we have a Ruby application running on 127.0.0.1:3000, we can configure a reverse proxy to accept connections on HTTP or HTTPS, which can then transparently proxy requests to the ruby ...

In this tutorial, we'll install and configure Gogs on CentOS Linux. What is Gogs? Gogs is a self-hosted Git service that provides much of the functionality of Github. It is written in Go, and is available as a single binary. Before you install it, you can try a demo of Gogs. Installation of Gogs In ...

What is letsencrypt (LE)? From the Let's Encrypt website: Let’s Encrypt is a free, automated, and open certificate authority (CA), run for the public’s benefit. It is a service provided by the Internet Security Research Group (ISRG). We give people the digital certificates they need in order to enable HTTPS (SSL/TLS) for websites, ...

In this tutorial, we will create a database along with a user to access the database. For the purpose of this tutorial, we will assume that you have already installed MariaDB on CentOS Linux. 1. Log in to the MariaDB console. If you have a password set, use the -p flag to ...

In this tutorial will we install MariaDB on CentOS 7 using the default yum repositories. What is MariaDB ? MariaDB is an free and open source database server made by the original developers of MySQL. It is a drop-in replacement for MySQL. Install MariaDB 1. Install MariaDB client and server 2. Enable and start MariaDB ...