Published on : September 24, 2014 by Mithun S.
cPHulk is a brute force protection system. cPHulk blocks the IP addresses that have more than one invalid login attempt within a fixed time interval. We are here trying to explain how the cPHulk whitelist IP can be done. cPHulk stores all of its information in a database called cphulkd. There are two tables of interest: logins and brutes. […]
Published on : September 23, 2014 by Mithun S.
There are different methods to change the timezone in Linux (Debian). The most simple and widely used ubuntu timezone configuration methods are shown below :- Method 1 :- To change the timezone,run the following command as root user: >>Select the geographical area in which you live Now select the city corresponding to your timezone […]
Published on : September 22, 2014 by Karthikeyan B.
My requirement was to rsync /etc/yum.repos.d/ with another server running the SSH on port 1791. Normal rsync won’t work and we need to specify the rsync custom ssh port in the rsync command itself. The command I had to execute is below Rsync over custom SSH port Rsync using SSH key: rsync using […]
Published on : September 21, 2014 by George K.
Have you ever forgotten the root password on one of our clients MySQL servers? No worries, please follow these five steps to do the MySQL root password reset. 1. Log in as root and stop the mysql daemon. Now lets start up the mysql daemon and skip the grant tables which store the passwords. Or […]
Published on : September 20, 2014 by Arnold Pablo
There could be many situations where you do not have a root password for many of the servers you interact with where you can not SSH directly in as the root user. Also, the ssh daemons are wisely configured with ‘PermitRootLogin’ set to ‘no’ so a password would be moot anyway. Let us see how […]
