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Perform Penetrative testing in Ubuntu

Submitted by system on Wed, 11 Jan 2023 - 10:16

Penetrative testing in Ubuntu can be done using the oscap tool. Download the latest vulnerability list using the command wget https://security-metadata.canonical.com/oval/com.ubuntu.$(lsb_release -cs).usn.oval.xml.bz2
Evaluate the vulnerability using the oscap command oscap oval eval --report report.html com.ubuntu.$(lsb_release -cs).usn.oval.xml
-- Link: https://ubuntu.com/security/oval

Upgrade MySQL 5.7 to MySQL 8

Submitted by system on Tue, 23 Aug 2022 - 14:11

To upgrade in Ubuntu 18.04 server. Step I: Get the upgrade command shell and check upgrade issues Get the MySQL Shell download link here: https://dev.mysql.com/downloads/shell/ This shell will assist in finding issues with the current installation. Install the MySQL upgrade shell with the command dpkg -i mysql-shell_8.0.30-1ubuntu18.04_amd64.deb
This will make available the mysqlsh command. Execute this mysqlsh command with root user to access the MySQL JS shell. mysqlsh

SVN: Creating a Repository and Migration

Submitted by amitsedai on Sat, 10 Nov 2012 - 06:35

Creating a Repository There are loads of documentation in creating a Repository. Provided below is an example VHOST config file for SVN:

ServerName svn.example.com
DocumentRoot /home/svn/

  DAV svn
  SVNPath /home/svn/reponame
#  SVNParentPath /var/svn/
  AuthType Basic
  AuthName "Example Repository"
  AuthUserFile /etc/subversion/passwd
  Require valid-user

ErrorLog /home/svn/logs/error.log
CustomLog /home/svn/logs/access.log combined

Handling Unwanted Stuff

Submitted by amitsedai on Mon, 8 Oct 2012 - 13:47

This is not a post for handling SPAM. Please find the following Softwares you would need to install. 1. ModSecurity supplies an array of request filtering and other security features to the Apache HTTP Server, IIS and NGINX. ModSecurity is a web application layer firewall. 2. Mod_evasive prevents against ddos and scripted bots which can hammer a website. Mod_evasive is the Web Denial of Service module used in ASL. It is designed to throttle http and https connections when they reach above a specified threshold.

How to send email from loclahost Drupal hosted in Ubuntu?

Submitted by sunildhimal on Mon, 3 Sep 2012 - 04:42

Consider a situation in which you have installed Drupal in your Ubuntu machine. Now you would like to start sending email from localhost.If you have not setup Mail Transfer Agent(MTA) than you will not be able to send email from localhost. What is Mail Transfer Agent(MTA)? Wikipedia Says:

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