Upgrading Bash for the Shellshock Vulnerability Shellshock, or Bashdoor, is a vulnerability that was discovered on September 12th, 2014 and embargoed until September 24th when it was assigned the CVE... Read more
Protecting Your Linode with TCP Wrappers TCP wrappers are a host-based access control system. They are used to prevent unauthorized access to your server by allowing only specific clients access... Read more
In this tutorial we will show you how to install Open VPN on a CentOS 6 VPS Server. OpenVPN is an open source VPN Server that can be used for... Read more
Overwhelmed with the response of last two articles of “Lesser Known Linux Article” series namely. 11 Lesser Known Useful Linux Commands – Part I 10 Lesser Known Linux Commands –... Read more
The tar utility is one of the utilities that you can use to create a backup on a Linux system. It includes many options that one can use to specify... Read more
Full Disk Encryption Deprecated This guide has been deprecated and is no longer being maintained. Full disk encryption protects the information stored on your Linode’s disks by converting it into... Read more
Have you ever been into a situation where you need to search for a string, word or pattern inside a file? if yes, then the grep utility comes handy in... Read more
Using rdiff-backup with SSHFS Rdiff-backup is an open source backup system that performs incremental, differential backups on a wide variety of platforms. Many people use rdiff-backup on both sides of... Read more