Follow these steps to boot in Single User mode in Ubuntu 12.04:
Step 1: Reboot the server and press “shift” key continuously to get the grub loader screen.
Step 2: In the Grub2 menu, select the first line with Linux x.x.x.x-generic.
GHOST Vulnerability (glibc)
On January 27, 2015, the GHOST vulnerability was announced by Qualys. This vulnerability allows remote attackers to take complete control of a system by exploiting a buffer overflow bug in a glibc function GetHOST. This vulnerability should be considered serious and all affected servers should be patched immediately.
Make RHEL 6 FIPS 140-2 Compliant
ISSUE
- To configure Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 to be compliant with the Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) Publication 140-2 several changes need to be made to ensure that accredited cryptographic modules are used.
Create a FTPS Server with vsftpd
Install vsftpd
The vsftpd server is available in CentOS’s default repositories. We can install it by typing:
sudo yum install vsftpd
The vsftpd server is now installed on our VPS. We can configure some connections options in the next section.
