How to install ProjectSend on CentOS 6

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <h1 class="entry-title" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; line-height: 1.1; margin: 20px 0px 10px; text-align: center;"> <span style="color: #990000; font-size: large;"><u>Install ProjectSend on CentOS</u></span></h1> <div> <div style="background-color: white;"> <div> <span style="color: #222222; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;"><b>ProjectSend</b> is a self-hosted application that lets you upload files and assign them to specific clients that you create yourself! Secure, private and easy. No more depending on external services or e-mail to send those files!</span></span></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWhDS__nMR1yNkpjMOQQzmd-IJqEuxdLk-fgWZM9sCXQZea4dTXGj7mZJq-nnrTUJnsy-OPp9K5CYbGCWORdq9_rZBpRRCAzr1ZWtynBvg8hnG1aUXSiyBEt_hq-hwq_K_orc2tUPZbDoS/s1600/projectsend_logo_www.hackthesec.co.in.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWhDS__nMR1yNkpjMOQQzmd-IJqEuxdLk-fgWZM9sCXQZea4dTXGj7mZJq-nnrTUJnsy-OPp9K5CYbGCWORdq9_rZBpRRCAzr1ZWtynBvg8hnG1aUXSiyBEt_hq-hwq_K_orc2tUPZbDoS/s1600/projectsend_logo_www.hackthesec.co.in.gif" /></a></div> <div> <span style="color: #222222; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;">ProjectSend is made in php and uses a <a href="http://www.hackthesec.co.in/search/label/Mysql">MySQL database</a> to store the information. Please see that your server has at least <a href="http://www.hackthesec.co.in/search/label/PHP">php</a> 5.2 and MySQL 5 or better to run the software. Apache 2 is recommended but PS should also work on IIS.</span></span></div> <div> <div style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;"> <b><u><span style="color: #0b5394;">Installation instructions:</span></u></b></div> <div style="color: #222222; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;"> Login to your server via <a href="http://www.hackthesec.co.in/search/label/SSH">SSH</a>:</div> <div style="color: #222222; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;"> <pre style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-color: #3c3c3c; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: initial; border-radius: 4px; border: 1px solid rgb(229, 229, 229); color: black; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 20px; outline: 0px; overflow: auto; padding: 20px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: white; font-family: trebuchet ms, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 15.6px;">ssh root@server_ip</span></span></pre> </div> <div style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;"> <span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;">Update the OS packages and install necessary packages:</span></span></div> <div> <pre style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-color: #3c3c3c; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-radius: 4px; border: 1px solid rgb(229, 229, 229); margin-bottom: 20px; outline: 0px; overflow: auto; padding: 20px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 15.6px;"><span style="color: white;">sudo yum -y upgrade </span><span style="color: lime;">sudo yum install unzip wget</span></span></span></pre> </div> <div> <span style="color: #222222; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;">Download and extract the ProjectSend archive to a directory on your server:</span></span></div> <div> <pre style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-color: #3c3c3c; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-radius: 4px; border: 1px solid rgb(229, 229, 229); margin-bottom: 20px; outline: 0px; overflow: auto; padding: 20px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 15.6px;"><span style="color: white;">wget https://github.com/ignacionelson/ProjectSend/archive/master.zip unzip master.zip </span><span style="color: lime;">mv ProjectSend-master /var/www/html/projectsend</span></span></span></pre> </div> <div> <span style="color: #222222; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;">Create a new MySQL database for ProjectSend on your server:</span></span></div> <div> <pre style="background-color: whitesmoke; border-radius: 4px; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: Menlo, Monaco, Consolas, 'Courier New', monospace; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.42857; margin-bottom: 10px; overflow: auto; padding: 9.5px; word-break: break-all; word-wrap: break-word;">mysql -u root -p mysql> CREATE DATABASE projectsenddb; mysql> GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON projectsenddb.* TO 'projectsenduser'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'your-password' WITH GRANT OPTION; mysql> FLUSH PRIVILEGES; mysql> quit</pre> </div> <div> <span style="color: #222222; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;">Rename the '<b>sys.config.sample.php</b>' file to '<b>sys.config.php</b>':</span></span></div> <div> <pre style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-color: #3c3c3c; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-radius: 4px; border: 1px solid rgb(229, 229, 229); margin-bottom: 20px; outline: 0px; overflow: auto; padding: 20px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 15.6px;"><span style="color: white;">cd /var/www/html/projectsend/includes </span><span style="color: lime;">mv sys.config.sample.php sys.config.php</span></span></span></pre> </div> <div> <span style="color: #222222; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;">Open the ProjectSend configuration file with your favorite text editor and change the MySQL database name, MySQL username and password with the ones you used at the time of the database creation:</span></div> <div> <pre style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-color: #3c3c3c; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-radius: 4px; border: 1px solid rgb(229, 229, 229); margin-bottom: 20px; outline: 0px; overflow: auto; padding: 20px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: orange; font-family: trebuchet ms, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 15.6px;">nano sys.config.php</span></span></pre> </div> <div style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;"> <pre style="background-color: whitesmoke; border-radius: 4px; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: Menlo, Monaco, Consolas, 'Courier New', monospace; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.42857; margin-bottom: 10px; overflow: auto; padding: 9.5px; word-break: break-all; word-wrap: break-word;">/** MySQL database name */ define('DB_NAME', 'projectsenddb'); /** Database host (in most cases it's localhost) */ define('DB_HOST', 'localhost'); /** MySQL username (must be assigned to the database) */ define('DB_USER', 'projectsenduser'); /** MySQL password */ define('DB_PASSWORD', 'your-password');</pre> </div> <div> <span style="color: #222222; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;">Create a new virtual host directive in Apache. For example, edit your Apache configuration file (/etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf by default) and uncomment the following line:</span></span></div> <div> <pre style="background-color: whitesmoke; border-radius: 4px; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: Menlo, Monaco, Consolas, 'Courier New', monospace; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.42857; margin-bottom: 10px; overflow: auto; padding: 9.5px; word-break: break-all; word-wrap: break-word;">#NameVirtualHost *:80</pre> </div> <div> <span style="color: #222222; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;">Then, add the following lines at the end:</span></span></div> <div> <pre style="background-color: whitesmoke; border-radius: 4px; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: Menlo, Monaco, Consolas, 'Courier New', monospace; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.42857; margin-bottom: 10px; overflow: auto; padding: 9.5px; word-break: break-all; word-wrap: break-word;"><VirtualHost *:80> ServerAdmin admin@yourdomain.com DocumentRoot /var/www/html/projectsend/ ServerName yourdomain.com ServerAlias www.yourdomain.com <Directory /var/www/html/projectsend/> Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews AllowOverride All Order allow,deny allow from all </Directory> ErrorLog logs/yourdomain.com-error_log CustomLog logs/yourdomain.com-access_log common </VirtualHost></pre> </div> <div> <span style="color: #222222; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;">Restart the Apache web service for the changes to take effect.</span></span></div> <div> <pre style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-color: #3c3c3c; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: initial; border-radius: 4px; border: 1px solid rgb(229, 229, 229); margin-bottom: 20px; outline: 0px; overflow: auto; padding: 20px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 15.6px;"><span style="color: white;">service </span><span style="color: cyan;">httpd restart</span></span></span></pre> </div> <div> <span style="color: #222222; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;">Open your favorite web browser, navigate to http://yourdomain.com/ and follow the easy instructions.You will be welcomed by the ProjectSend installation page like the one below:</span></span></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoP0g9A4Q9qy8TWxMeeog1xDbiyApP6p3SnWk7jeI9WXYGv2NVG9Z-KbIFqeKLTPuWBbQdEGc_1HbN0G8epsXilKdu2UUtgcIKdRTisznnySlJZuKaWRdQrYeXmFLObYAYy2XQ5QY4yjfn/s1600/projectsend_www.hackthesec.co.in.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoP0g9A4Q9qy8TWxMeeog1xDbiyApP6p3SnWk7jeI9WXYGv2NVG9Z-KbIFqeKLTPuWBbQdEGc_1HbN0G8epsXilKdu2UUtgcIKdRTisznnySlJZuKaWRdQrYeXmFLObYAYy2XQ5QY4yjfn/s1600/projectsend_www.hackthesec.co.in.png" /></a></div> <div> <span style="color: #222222; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;">Fill in the following details:</span></span></div> <div style="color: #222222; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;"> <pre style="background-color: whitesmoke; border-radius: 4px; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: Menlo, Monaco, Consolas, 'Courier New', monospace; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.42857; margin-bottom: 10px; overflow: auto; padding: 9.5px; word-break: break-all; word-wrap: break-word;">Sitename: It can be anything.(myproject.com) ProjectSend URL: your domain name or IP address of the server.</pre> </div> <div> <div> <span style="color: #222222; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;">Then, enter your personal details and log in credentials: name, e-mail address, administrator username and password and click 'Install'.</span></span></div> <div> <span style="color: #222222; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;">That is it. The ProjectSend installation is now complete. Now you can log in and create new users, create groups, upload files from the ProjectSend dashboard.</span></span></div> <div> <span style="color: #222222; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;"><br /></span></span></div> <div> <span style="color: #222222; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;">For more information about ProjectSend, please refer to the <a href="http://www.projectsend.org/">ProjectSend </a>website.</span></span></div> </div> <div style="color: #222222; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;"> <a href="http://www.hackthesec.co.in/">www.hackthesec.co.in</a></div> </div> </div> </div> </div>

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How to Block abusive IP addresses using IPTABLES Firewall in Debian/Ubuntu

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <h1 class="entry-title" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; line-height: 1.1; margin: 20px 0px 10px;"> <span style="color: #990000; font-size: large;"><u>Blocking abusive IP addresses using IPTABLES Firewall</u></span></h1> <div> <span style="color: #222222; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;">In computing, a firewall is a network security system that monitors and controls the incoming and outgoing network traffic based on predetermined security rules. A firewall typically establishes a barrier between a trusted, secure internal network and another outside network, such as the Internet, that is assumed to not be secure or trusted. </span></span></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVLpw76eQcyxf_FJfA5z-xQ_rnjxqJKvLr9bioRWOZ81yGF0gkvnv0ZmEtr_cz0GqKBerizxuLX9yKohg0XrJiIrpt3n3evDA2WOxvLVHWD3uPwxo6i3pImzS__HETrwaS2C9lFrontj46/s1600/firewall_www.hackthesec.co.in.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVLpw76eQcyxf_FJfA5z-xQ_rnjxqJKvLr9bioRWOZ81yGF0gkvnv0ZmEtr_cz0GqKBerizxuLX9yKohg0XrJiIrpt3n3evDA2WOxvLVHWD3uPwxo6i3pImzS__HETrwaS2C9lFrontj46/s1600/firewall_www.hackthesec.co.in.jpg" /></a></div> <div> <span style="color: #222222; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;"><br /></span></span></div> <div> <span style="color: #222222; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;">Firewalls are often categorized as either network firewalls or host-based firewalls. Network firewalls are a software appliance running on general purpose hardware or hardware-based firewall computer appliances that filter traffic between two or more networks. Host-based firewalls provide a layer of software on one host that controls network traffic in and out of that single machine</span></span></div> <div> <div style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;"> <ul style="color: #222222; font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px; text-align: left;"> <li>Flushing the old firewall rules</li> <li>Determining service ports</li> <li>Setting-up default policies</li> <li>Setting-up your firewall rules</li> <li>Saving your firewall rules</li> </ul> <div> <div> <span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;"><b><u><span style="color: #0b5394;">BLOCKING IPs USING IPTABLES</span></u></b></span></div> <div style="color: #222222;"> <span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;">To block some abusive IP address or range of IPs, you can use the following iptables rules:</span></div> </div> </div> <div> <pre style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-color: #3c3c3c; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-radius: 4px; border: 1px solid rgb(229, 229, 229); margin-bottom: 20px; outline: 0px; overflow: auto; padding: 20px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: white; font-family: trebuchet ms, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 15.6px;">## iptables -I INPUT -s 1.2.3.4 -j DROP ## iptables -I INPUT -s 1.2.0.0/16 -j DROP</span></span></pre> </div> <div> <div> <span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;"><b><u>CREATING THE BLACKLIST</u></b></span></span></div> <div> <span style="color: #222222; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;">For better readability and maintenance, it is a good idea to have all abusing IPs in one particular file, for example <b>/etc/blacklist.ips</b>. This way, you can add the IP addresses or subnets in this file (one IP or subnet per line) and use the <b>fwall-rules</b> script below to block anything listed in this file.</span></span></div> <div> <span style="color: #222222; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;">So, create or edit <b>/usr/local/bin/fwall-rules </b>and make it as follows:</span></span></div> </div> <div style="color: #222222; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;"> <pre style="background-color: whitesmoke; border-radius: 4px; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: Menlo, Monaco, Consolas, 'Courier New', monospace; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.42857; margin-bottom: 10px; overflow: auto; padding: 9.5px; word-break: break-all; word-wrap: break-word;">#!/bin/bash # # iptables firewall script # # IPTABLES=/sbin/iptables BLACKLIST=/etc/blacklist.ips echo " * flushing old rules" ${IPTABLES} --flush ${IPTABLES} --delete-chain ${IPTABLES} --table nat --flush ${IPTABLES} --table nat --delete-chain echo " * setting default policies" ${IPTABLES} -P INPUT DROP ${IPTABLES} -P FORWARD DROP ${IPTABLES} -P OUTPUT ACCEPT echo " * allowing loopback devices" ${IPTABLES} -A INPUT -i lo -j ACCEPT ${IPTABLES} -A OUTPUT -o lo -j ACCEPT ${IPTABLES} -A INPUT -p tcp ! --syn -m state --state NEW -j DROP ${IPTABLES} -A INPUT -m state --state ESTABLISHED,RELATED -j ACCEPT ## BLOCK ABUSING IPs HERE ## #echo " * BLACKLIST" #${IPTABLES} -A INPUT -s _ABUSIVE_IP_ -j DROP #${IPTABLES} -A INPUT -s _ABUSIVE_IP2_ -j DROP echo " * allowing ssh on port 5622" ${IPTABLES} -A INPUT -p tcp --dport 5622 -m state --state NEW -j ACCEPT echo " * allowing ftp on port 21" ${IPTABLES} -A INPUT -p tcp --dport 21 -m state --state NEW -j ACCEPT echo " * allowing dns on port 53 udp" ${IPTABLES} -A INPUT -p udp -m udp --dport 53 -j ACCEPT echo " * allowing dns on port 53 tcp" ${IPTABLES} -A INPUT -p tcp -m tcp --dport 53 -j ACCEPT echo " * allowing http on port 80" ${IPTABLES} -A INPUT -p tcp --dport 80 -m state --state NEW -j ACCEPT echo " * allowing https on port 443" ${IPTABLES} -A INPUT -p tcp --dport 443 -m state --state NEW -j ACCEPT echo " * allowing smtp on port 25" ${IPTABLES} -A INPUT -p tcp -m state --state NEW -m tcp --dport 25 -j ACCEPT echo " * allowing submission on port 587" ${IPTABLES} -A INPUT -p tcp -m state --state NEW -m tcp --dport 587 -j ACCEPT echo " * allowing imaps on port 993" ${IPTABLES} -A INPUT -p tcp -m state --state NEW -m tcp --dport 993 -j ACCEPT echo " * allowing pop3s on port 995" ${IPTABLES} -A INPUT -p tcp -m state --state NEW -m tcp --dport 995 -j ACCEPT echo " * allowing imap on port 143" ${IPTABLES} -A INPUT -p tcp -m state --state NEW -m tcp --dport 143 -j ACCEPT echo " * allowing pop3 on port 110" ${IPTABLES} -A INPUT -p tcp -m state --state NEW -m tcp --dport 110 -j ACCEPT echo " * allowing ping responses" ${IPTABLES} -A INPUT -p ICMP --icmp-type 8 -j ACCEPT # DROP everything else and Log it ${IPTABLES} -A INPUT -j LOG ${IPTABLES} -A INPUT -j DROP # # Block abusing IPs # from ${BLACKLIST} # if [[ -f "${BLACKLIST}" ]] && [[ -s "${BLACKLIST}" ]]; then echo " * BLOCKING ABUSIVE IPs" while read IP; do ${IPTABLES} -I INPUT -s "${IP}" -j DROP done < <(cat "${BLACKLIST}") fi # # Save settings # echo " * SAVING RULES" if [[ -d /etc/network/if-pre-up.d ]]; then if [[ ! -f /etc/network/if-pre-up.d/iptables ]]; then echo -e "#!/bin/bash" > /etc/network/if-pre-up.d/iptables echo -e "test -e /etc/iptables.rules && iptables-restore -c /etc/iptables.rules" >> /etc/network/if-pre-up.d/iptables chmod +x /etc/network/if-pre-up.d/iptables fi fi iptables-save > /etc/fwall.rules iptables-restore -c /etc/fwall.rules</pre> </div> <div> <span style="color: #222222; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;">make sure the script is executable by adding an ‘x’ bit to it:</span></span></div> <div> <pre style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-color: #3c3c3c; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-radius: 4px; border: 1px solid rgb(229, 229, 229); margin-bottom: 20px; outline: 0px; overflow: auto; padding: 20px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: white; font-family: trebuchet ms, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 15.6px;"># chmod +x /usr/local/bin/fwall-rules</span></span></pre> </div> <div style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;"> <span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;"><div> <b><u><span style="color: #0b5394;">APPLYING THE RULES</span></u></b></div> <div style="color: #222222;"> To apply the firewall rules and block the abusers, you need to just execute the fwall-rules script and that’s it.</div> </span></div> <div style="color: #222222; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;"> <pre style="background-color: whitesmoke; border-radius: 4px; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: Menlo, Monaco, Consolas, 'Courier New', monospace; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.42857; margin-bottom: 10px; overflow: auto; padding: 9.5px; word-break: break-all; word-wrap: break-word;"># fwall-rules * flushing old rules * setting default policies * allowing loopback devices * allowing ssh on port 5622 * allowing ftp on port 21 * allowing dns on port 53 udp * allowing dns on port 53 tcp * allowing http on port 80 * allowing https on port 443 * allowing smtp on port 25 * allowing submission on port 587 * allowing imaps on port 993 * allowing pop3s on port 995 * allowing imap on port 143 * allowing pop3 on port 110 * allowing ping responses * BLOCKING ABUSIVE IPs * SAVING RULES</pre> <pre style="background-color: whitesmoke; border-radius: 4px; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: Menlo, Monaco, Consolas, 'Courier New', monospace; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.42857; margin-bottom: 10px; overflow: auto; padding: 9.5px; word-break: break-all; word-wrap: break-word;"><a href="http://wwww.hackthesec.co.in/">wwww.hackthesec.co.in</a> </pre> </div> </div> </div>

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<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <h1 class="entry-title" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: proxima-nova, sans-serif; line-height: 3.4rem; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="color: #990000; font-size: large;"><u>Configure Apache 2 to Control Browser Caching</u></span></h1> <div> <span style="color: #222222; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;">In computing, a cache is a component that stores data so future requests for that data can be served faster; the data stored in a cache might be the result of an earlier computation, or the duplicate of data stored elsewhere. A cache hit occurs when the requested data can be found in a cache, while a cache miss occurs when it cannot. Cache hits are served by reading data from the cache, which is faster than recomputing a result or reading from a slower data store; thus, the more requests can be served from the cache, the faster the system performs</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;">.</span></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGE0vFboU1RDlM2PymdSZ-OcIBmeu9LR2NYStOGsALIanAfrMFGIm5dH2H6qspA3FbDxvdiA11sZuVlASLc-HdtoGAdz5umTyNhUDcCUX0xPQt1qT_rBqD-LbBWymn4wm9sKududWUrk2W/s1600/HTTP-caching-last-modified_www.hackthesec.co.in.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGE0vFboU1RDlM2PymdSZ-OcIBmeu9LR2NYStOGsALIanAfrMFGIm5dH2H6qspA3FbDxvdiA11sZuVlASLc-HdtoGAdz5umTyNhUDcCUX0xPQt1qT_rBqD-LbBWymn4wm9sKududWUrk2W/s1600/HTTP-caching-last-modified_www.hackthesec.co.in.png" /></a></div> <div> <span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;"><br /></span></div> <div> <span style="background-color: white; font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;">Caching, as it pertains to hosting a website, is the temporary storage of content. This content could be images, files, bits of <a href="http://www.hackthesec.co.in/search/label/PHP">PHP</a> scripts that are precompiled, HTML pages, results of database queries, and other web objects.</span></span></div> <div> <span style="background-color: white; font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;"><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;"><div> <b><u><span style="color: #0b5394;">Step #1: Verify Modules</span></u></b></div> <div style="color: #222222;"> Apache must be configured with the appropriate modules to leverage browser caching.</div> <div style="color: #222222;"> Let’s check for mod_expires (expires_module) first:</div> </span></span></div> <div> <pre style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-color: #3c3c3c; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: initial; border-radius: 4px; border: 1px solid rgb(229, 229, 229); margin-bottom: 20px; outline: 0px; overflow: auto; padding: 20px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: white; font-family: trebuchet ms, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 15.6px;">apachectl -M | grep expires</span></span></pre> </div> <div> <span style="background-color: white; font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;">should return:</span></span></div> <div> <pre style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-color: #3c3c3c; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: initial; border-radius: 4px; border: 1px solid rgb(229, 229, 229); margin-bottom: 20px; outline: 0px; overflow: auto; padding: 20px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: white; font-family: trebuchet ms, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 15.6px;">expires_module (shared)</span></span></pre> </div> <div> <span style="background-color: white; font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;">Then let’s check for mod_headers (headers_module):</span></span></div> <div> <pre style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-color: #3c3c3c; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: initial; border-radius: 4px; border: 1px solid rgb(229, 229, 229); margin-bottom: 20px; outline: 0px; overflow: auto; padding: 20px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: white; font-family: trebuchet ms, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 15.6px;">apachectl -M | grep headers</span></span></pre> </div> <div> <span style="background-color: white; font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;">should return:</span></span></div> <div> <pre style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-color: #3c3c3c; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: initial; border-radius: 4px; border: 1px solid rgb(229, 229, 229); margin-bottom: 20px; outline: 0px; overflow: auto; padding: 20px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: white; font-family: trebuchet ms, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 15.6px;">headers_module (shared)</span></span></pre> </div> <div> <span style="background-color: white; font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;"><b><u>Step #2: Examples of Directives</u></b></span></span></div> <div> <span style="background-color: white; font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;">This code can be placed in the <b>.htaccess</b> files for specific directories, or in your root web directory, but we suggest placing it in your <b>httpd.conf</b>.</span></span></div> <div> <pre style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-color: #3c3c3c; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: initial; border-radius: 4px; border: 1px solid rgb(229, 229, 229); margin-bottom: 20px; outline: 0px; overflow: auto; padding: 20px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: white; font-family: trebuchet ms, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 15.6px;"><IfModule mod_expires.c> # Turn on the module. ExpiresActive on # Set the default expiry times. ExpiresDefault "access plus 2 days" ExpiresByType image/jpg "access plus 1 month" ExpiresByType image/gif "access plus 1 month" ExpiresByType image/jpeg "access plus 1 month" ExpiresByType image/png "access plus 1 month" ExpiresByType text/css "access plus 1 month" ExpiresByType text/javascript "access plus 1 month" ExpiresByType application/javascript "access plus 1 month" ExpiresByType application/x-shockwave-flash "access plus 1 month" ExpiresByType text/css "now plus 1 month" ExpiresByType image/ico "access plus 1 month" ExpiresByType image/x-icon "access plus 1 month" ExpiresByType text/html "access plus 600 seconds" </IfModule></span></span></pre> </div> <div> <span style="background-color: white; font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;"><div> <ul style="text-align: left;"> <li>The default expiration (ExpiresDefault) is set to 2 days.</li> <li>Images expire after 1 month.</li> <li>CSS and JavaScript also expire after 1 month.</li> <li>HTML expires after 10 minutes (600 seconds).</li> </ul> </div> </span></span></div> <div> <span style="background-color: white;"><div style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;"> <b><u><span style="color: #0b5394;">Step #3: Implement Directives</span></u></b></div> <div style="color: #222222; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;"> The above directives can be implemented easily. If you’re not already, <a href="http://www.hackthesec.co.in/search/label/SSH">SSH</a> into your server as root. Then edit the <b>httpd.conf</b> file..</div> <div> <pre style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-color: #3c3c3c; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-radius: 4px; border: 1px solid rgb(229, 229, 229); margin-bottom: 20px; outline: 0px; overflow: auto; padding: 20px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: white; font-family: trebuchet ms, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 15.6px;">vi /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf</span></span></pre> </div> </span></div> <div> <span style="background-color: white; font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;">Find a section that looks like this:</span></span></div> <div> <pre style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-color: #3c3c3c; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-radius: 4px; border: 1px solid rgb(229, 229, 229); margin-bottom: 20px; outline: 0px; overflow: auto; padding: 20px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: white; font-family: trebuchet ms, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 15.6px;"># Further relax access to the default document root: <Directory "/var/www/html"></span></span></pre> </div> <div> <span style="background-color: white;"><div style="color: #222222; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;"> The section above (in this case) is the default document root. Add the expiration directives between <b><Directory “/var/www/html”> and </Directory>.</b></div> <div style="color: #222222; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;"> <b><u>Then restart Apache</u></b></div> <div> <pre style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-color: #3c3c3c; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-radius: 4px; border: 1px solid rgb(229, 229, 229); margin-bottom: 20px; outline: 0px; overflow: auto; padding: 20px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: white; font-family: trebuchet ms, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 15.6px;">systemctl restart httpd</span></span></pre> </div> <div> <span style="color: #222222; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;">Full details for mod_expires can be found in the <a href="http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/mod/mod_expires.html">Apache Documentation</a>.</span></span></div> </span></div> <div> <span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;"><br /></span></div> <div> <a href="http://www.hackthesec.co.in/">www.hackthesec.co.in</a></div> </div>

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RHEL 7.1 Kernel - snd-usb-audio Crash PoC

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <h1 style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #555555; font-family: 'Noto Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 38px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 300; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"> RHEL 7.1 Kernel - snd-usb-audio Crash PoC</h1> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEij1J2ylhbxBPxzhUTbFf-OMd81ciucqFVzDw3uukYtml-4RBwDbrzz25RYhBiIpqdksD23SXKIAJURVtyUyacErO_C5l9iIUxaF82QXmCYdrzz_Z67t0GswlcZAXhtIrfeMs5cWdXpPlKV/s1600/Linux-Kernel-exploit-www.hackthesec.co.in.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEij1J2ylhbxBPxzhUTbFf-OMd81ciucqFVzDw3uukYtml-4RBwDbrzz25RYhBiIpqdksD23SXKIAJURVtyUyacErO_C5l9iIUxaF82QXmCYdrzz_Z67t0GswlcZAXhtIrfeMs5cWdXpPlKV/s1600/Linux-Kernel-exploit-www.hackthesec.co.in.png" /></a></div> <div> <br /></div> <div> <table class="exploit_list" style="background-color: rgb(239, 239, 239) !important; border-radius: 3px !important; border-spacing: 1px; border: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221) !important; box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px; padding: 1px !important; width: 650px;"><tbody style="box-sizing: border-box;"> <tr style="background-color: rgb(248, 248, 248) !important; box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 5px 10px;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">CVE:</strong> <a class="external" href="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-2184" rel="nofollow" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #337ab7; outline: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition-duration: 0.3s; transition-property: background-color, box-shadow, border, color, opacity;" target="_blank">2016-2184</a></td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 5px 10px;"><br /></td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 5px 10px;"><br /></td></tr> <tr style="background-color: rgb(248, 248, 248) !important; box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 5px 10px;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">Author:</strong> OpenSource Security<span class="fa fa-times" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; font-family: FontAwesome; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1; text-rendering: auto;"></span></td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 5px 10px;"><br /></td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 5px 10px;"><br /></td></tr> <tr style="background-color: rgb(248, 248, 248) !important; box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 5px 10px;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">Download Exploit:</strong> <a href="https://www.exploit-db.com/download/39555" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #337ab7; outline: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition-duration: 0.3s; transition-property: background-color, box-shadow, border, color, opacity;"><span class="fa fa-file-code-o" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; font-family: FontAwesome; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1; text-rendering: auto;"></span> Source</a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.hackthesec.co.in/">www.hackthesec.co.in</a></td><td colspan="2" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 5px 10px;"><br /></td></tr> </tbody></table> </div> </div>

RHEL 7.1 Kernel - snd-usb-audio Crash PoC

RHEL 7.1 Kernel - snd-usb-audio Crash PoC CVE: 2016-2184 Author: OpenSource Security Download Exploit:  Sourcewww.hackthesec.co.in …

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How To Retrieve or Reset the Root MySQL Password

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <h1 class="entry-title" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: proxima-nova, sans-serif; line-height: 3.4rem; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="color: #990000; font-size: large;"><u>Retrieve or Reset the Root MySQL Password</u></span></h1> <div> <span style="color: #222222; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;">MySQL AB was a software company that was founded in 1995. It was acquired by Sun Microsystems in 2008; Sun was in turn acquired by Oracle Corporation in 2010.</span></span></div> <div> <span style="color: #222222; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;">This is a quick tutorial how to reset your <a href="http://www.hackthesec.co.in/search/label/Mysql_Database">MySQL</a> root password. It does require root access on your server. </span></span></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5sGSkdiY6rimv0IB8iREbyy1vyE5VOacsLnlh5LPLdoInHSPOaxVR6h0TApVBc3Zh5ovP0Cfr-XsJn1tFthuOYMnwyYupGoPn3zjvrfrowqAwqbs32Qj4qTAIiFnKjAM7v6E7TLETS7el/s1600/reset-mysql-root-password-www.hackthesec.co.in.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5sGSkdiY6rimv0IB8iREbyy1vyE5VOacsLnlh5LPLdoInHSPOaxVR6h0TApVBc3Zh5ovP0Cfr-XsJn1tFthuOYMnwyYupGoPn3zjvrfrowqAwqbs32Qj4qTAIiFnKjAM7v6E7TLETS7el/s1600/reset-mysql-root-password-www.hackthesec.co.in.jpg" /></a></div> <div> <span style="color: #222222; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;"><br /></span></span></div> <div> <span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;"><b><u>Step #1</u></b></span></span></div> <div> <span style="color: #222222; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;">Stop MySQL:</span></span></div> <div> <pre style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-color: #3c3c3c; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: initial; border-radius: 4px; border: 1px solid rgb(229, 229, 229); margin-bottom: 20px; outline: 0px; overflow: auto; padding: 20px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: white; font-family: trebuchet ms, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 15.6px;">service mysql stop</span></span></pre> </div> <div> <b style="color: #0b5394; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;"><u>Step #2</u></b></div> <div> <span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;">Start MySQL in single-user mode, bypassing password authorization, by pasting in the command below (the ampersand is required):</span></span></div> <div> <pre style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-color: #3c3c3c; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: initial; border-radius: 4px; border: 1px solid rgb(229, 229, 229); margin-bottom: 20px; outline: 0px; overflow: auto; padding: 20px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: white; font-family: trebuchet ms, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 15.6px;">mysqld_safe --skip-grant-tables &</span></span></pre> </div> <div> <b style="color: #0b5394; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;"><u>Step #3</u></b></div> <div> <span style="color: #222222; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;">Now type "mysql" to connect:</span></span></div> <div> <pre style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-color: #3c3c3c; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: initial; border-radius: 4px; border: 1px solid rgb(229, 229, 229); margin-bottom: 20px; outline: 0px; overflow: auto; padding: 20px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: white; font-family: trebuchet ms, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 15.6px;">mysql</span></span></pre> </div> <div> <b style="color: #0b5394; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;"><u>Step #4</u></b></div> <div> <span style="color: #222222; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;">At the mysql prompt, change the root password using the following three commands:</span></span></div> <div> <pre style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-color: #3c3c3c; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: initial; border-radius: 4px; border: 1px solid rgb(229, 229, 229); margin-bottom: 20px; outline: 0px; overflow: auto; padding: 20px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: white; font-family: trebuchet ms, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 15.6px;">UPDATE mysql.user SET password=password("YourNewStrongPassword") WHERE user='root'; FLUSH PRIVILEGES; exit;</span></span></pre> </div> <div> <b style="color: #0b5394; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;"><u>Step #4</u></b></div> <div> <span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;">Now stop MySQL and start it in normal mode:</span></span></div> <div> <pre style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-color: #3c3c3c; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: initial; border-radius: 4px; border: 1px solid rgb(229, 229, 229); margin-bottom: 20px; outline: 0px; overflow: auto; padding: 20px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: white; font-family: trebuchet ms, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 15.6px;">service mysql stop service mysql start</span></span></pre> </div> <div> <span style="color: #222222; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;"><div> <b style="color: #0b5394;"><u>Step #5</u></b></div> <div> Verify that you are able to connect to MySQL by entering "mysql".</div> </span></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;"><div> <b style="color: #0b5394;"><u>Step #6</u></b></div> <div> Finally, update the MySQL root password in<b> /etc/.my.cnf</b> to match the new value. You can use vi, vim or nano:</div> </span></span></div> <div> <pre style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-color: #3c3c3c; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: initial; border-radius: 4px; border: 1px solid rgb(229, 229, 229); margin-bottom: 20px; outline: 0px; overflow: auto; padding: 20px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: white; font-family: trebuchet ms, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 15.6px;">vi /root/.my.cnf</span></span></pre> </div> <div> <span style="color: #222222; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;"><b><u>Recovering the Root MySQL Password on a cPanel server</u></b></span></span></div> <div> <span style="color: #222222; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;">The root <a href="http://www.hackthesec.co.in/search/label/Mysql">MySQL</a> credentials are stored locally in a file that only the root user can access. After you’ve connected to the server as root via <a href="http://www.hackthesec.co.in/search/label/SSH">SSH</a>, you can view the credentials by running the following command:</span></span></div> <div> <pre style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-color: #3c3c3c; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: initial; border-radius: 4px; border: 1px solid rgb(229, 229, 229); margin-bottom: 20px; outline: 0px; overflow: auto; padding: 20px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: white; font-family: trebuchet ms, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 15.6px;">cat /root/.my.cnf</span></span></pre> </div> <div> <span style="color: #222222; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;">That should output a result containing the MySQL password, which will appear similar to the following:</span></span></div> <div> <pre class="xtypo_info" style="background: url("assets/shadow.png") 50% 100% repeat-x rgb(245, 245, 245); border-radius: 4px; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); box-shadow: rgb(204, 204, 204) 0px 0px 3px; box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: normal; margin-bottom: 10px; overflow: auto; padding: 9.5px; tab-size: 4; text-shadow: rgb(255, 255, 255) 0px 1px 0px; word-break: break-all; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: menlo, monaco, consolas, courier new, monospace; font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 18.5714px; white-space: pre-wrap;">[root@host ~]# cat /root/.my.cnf [client] password=#@hackthesec user=root</span></span></pre> <pre class="xtypo_info" style="background: url("assets/shadow.png") 50% 100% repeat-x rgb(245, 245, 245); border-radius: 4px; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); box-shadow: rgb(204, 204, 204) 0px 0px 3px; box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: normal; margin-bottom: 10px; overflow: auto; padding: 9.5px; tab-size: 4; text-shadow: rgb(255, 255, 255) 0px 1px 0px; word-break: break-all; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: menlo, monaco, consolas, courier new, monospace;"><span style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 18.5714px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="http://www.hackthesec.co.in/">www.hackthesec.co.in</a> <a href="https://www.twitter.com/Hackthesecurity">https://www.twitter.com/Hackthesecurity</a> <a href="http://facebook.com/htsecu">http://facebook.com/htsecu</a> <a href="http://feeds.hackthesec.co.in/hackthesec">http://feeds.hackthesec.co.in/hackthesec</a></span></span></pre> </div> </div>

How To Retrieve or Reset the Root MySQL Password

Retrieve or Reset the Root MySQL Password MySQL AB was a software company that was founded in 1995. It was acquired by Sun Microsystems in 2008; Sun was in turn acquired by Oracle Corporation in 2010…

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How to Checking or Repairing a File System using fsck in Linux

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <h1 class="eb-entry-title reset-heading " id="title-1730" itemprop="name headline" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: medium none; box-sizing: border-box; clear: none; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: static; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; width: auto;"> <span style="color: #990000; font-size: large;"><u>Checking or Repairing a File System using fsck</u></span></h1> <div> <span style="color: #222222; font-family: "verdana" , "geneva" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;">The system utility fsck (for "file system consistency check") is a tool for checking the consistency of a file system in <a href="http://www.hackthesec.co.in/search/label/Unix">Unix</a> and Unix-like operating systems, such as <a href="http://www.hackthesec.co.in/search/label/Linux%20Tutorial">Linux</a> and OS X</span></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "verdana" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;">.</span></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhT3zA_Ce2jkt8KJpCnN8_jrHnY76tM9fEnkCvmfj6HKjsIWOHjBMbUc1BDB-Qobhy1-B3PRUC-OfW1e9XWG8eNyUmK4L90VMmVO02IV41GzJLJB7PUmWz00U3PElrRnieIL6csOsnO85Gg/s1600/fsck-check-filesystem-www.hackthesec.co.in.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhT3zA_Ce2jkt8KJpCnN8_jrHnY76tM9fEnkCvmfj6HKjsIWOHjBMbUc1BDB-Qobhy1-B3PRUC-OfW1e9XWG8eNyUmK4L90VMmVO02IV41GzJLJB7PUmWz00U3PElrRnieIL6csOsnO85Gg/s1600/fsck-check-filesystem-www.hackthesec.co.in.jpg" /></a></div> <div> <span style="color: #222222; font-family: "verdana" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;"><br /></span></div> <div> <span style="color: #222222; font-family: "verdana" , "geneva" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;">Firstly, we can change the number to 50, which chooses how often you want the check performed.</span></span></div> <div> <pre style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-color: #3c3c3c; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: initial; border-radius: 4px; border: 1px solid rgb(229, 229, 229); margin-bottom: 20px; outline: 0px; overflow: auto; padding: 20px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 15.6px;"># tune2fs -c 50 /dev/hda1</span></span></pre> </div> <div> <span style="color: #222222; font-family: "verdana" , "geneva" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;">1 makes it scan at every boot, </span></span></div> <div> <pre style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-color: #3c3c3c; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: initial; border-radius: 4px; border: 1px solid rgb(229, 229, 229); margin-bottom: 20px; outline: 0px; overflow: auto; padding: 20px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 15.6px;"># tune2fs -c 1 /dev/hda1</span></span></pre> </div> <div> <span style="color: #222222; font-family: "verdana" , "geneva" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;">0 stops scanning altogether</span></span></div> <div> <pre style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-color: #3c3c3c; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: initial; border-radius: 4px; border: 1px solid rgb(229, 229, 229); margin-bottom: 20px; outline: 0px; overflow: auto; padding: 20px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 15.6px;"># tune2fs -c 0 /dev/hda1</span></span></pre> </div> <div> <div style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;"> <b><u><span style="color: #0b5394;">What /etc/fstab lines mean?</span></u></b></div> <div style="color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;"> We have the following mounts</div> <div> <pre style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-color: #3c3c3c; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-radius: 4px; border: 1px solid rgb(229, 229, 229); margin-bottom: 20px; outline: 0px; overflow: auto; padding: 20px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 15.6px;">/dev/nvme0n1 / ext4 defaults 1 1 /dev/nvme1n1 /home ext4 defaults 1 2</span></span></pre> </div> </div> <div> <div style="color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;"> <b><u>Defined as:</u></b></div> <div style="color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;"> <ul style="text-align: left;"> <li>0 = Do not check.</li> <li>1 = First file system (partition) to check;<br /> / (root partition) should be set to 1.</li> </ul> </div> <div style="color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;"> <ul style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px; text-align: left;"> <li>2 = ALL OTHER file systems to be checked.</li> </ul> <div> <span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;">Not recommended you could disable checks all together but using the below mounts, changing 1 to 0 like example.</span></div> </div> <div> <pre style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-color: #3c3c3c; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-radius: 4px; border: 1px solid rgb(229, 229, 229); margin-bottom: 20px; outline: 0px; overflow: auto; padding: 20px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 15.6px;">/dev/nvme0n1 / ext4 defaults 0 1 /dev/nvme1n1 /home ext4 defaults 0 2</span></span></pre> </div> <div> <div style="color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;"> Changing to 0 would disable disk checks.</div> <div style="color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;"> Another was to check a hard drive is by touching a file called forcefsck, then reboot to check a disk.</div> <div> <span style="color: #222222; font-family: "verdana" , "geneva" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;">Creating a forcefsck file triggers the file system to check hard disks after a restart, type below: </span></span></div> </div> </div> <div> <pre style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-color: #3c3c3c; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-radius: 4px; border: 1px solid rgb(229, 229, 229); margin-bottom: 20px; outline: 0px; overflow: auto; padding: 20px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 15.6px;"># touch /forcefsck</span></span></pre> </div> <div> <div style="color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;"> I noticed this doesn't always work depending on your distributions and checkroot scripts during initial bootup.</div> <div style="color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;"> There is also the -i switch to set an interval before the check if you prefer.</div> <div> <pre style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-color: #3c3c3c; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-radius: 4px; border: 1px solid rgb(229, 229, 229); margin-bottom: 20px; outline: 0px; overflow: auto; padding: 20px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 15.6px;"># tune2fs -c 50 -i 1m /dev/nvme0n1</span></span></pre> </div> </div> <div> <span style="color: #222222; font-family: "verdana" , "geneva" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;"><b>How do you get the information from the drive on how many restarts will the fsck run?</b></span></span></div> <div> <pre style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-color: #3c3c3c; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-radius: 4px; border: 1px solid rgb(229, 229, 229); margin-bottom: 20px; outline: 0px; overflow: auto; padding: 20px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 15.6px;"># dumpe2fs -h /dev/sdb1 | grep -i 'mount count'</span></span></pre> </div> <div> <span style="color: #222222; font-family: "verdana" , "geneva" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;">Outpur : -</span></span></div> <div> <pre class="xtypo_info" style="background: url("assets/shadow.png") 50% 100% repeat-x rgb(245, 245, 245); border-radius: 4px; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); box-shadow: rgb(204, 204, 204) 0px 0px 3px; box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: normal; margin-bottom: 10px; overflow: auto; padding: 9.5px; tab-size: 4; text-shadow: rgb(255, 255, 255) 0px 1px 0px; word-break: break-all; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "menlo" , "monaco" , "consolas" , "courier new" , monospace;"><span style="line-height: 18.5714px; white-space: pre-wrap;">dumpe2fs 1.39 (29-May-2006) Mount count: 26 Maximum mount count: 31</span></span></pre> </div> <div> <span style="color: #222222; font-family: "verdana" , "geneva" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;">On <a href="http://www.hackthesec.co.in/search/label/Debian">Debian</a>, <a href="http://www.hackthesec.co.in/search/label/Ubuntu">Ubuntu</a> or <a href="http://www.hackthesec.co.in/search/label/LinuxMint">Linux Mint</a>, edit /etc/default/rcS as follows.</span></span></div> <div> <pre style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-color: #3c3c3c; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-radius: 4px; border: 1px solid rgb(229, 229, 229); margin-bottom: 20px; outline: 0px; overflow: auto; padding: 20px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 15.6px;"># vim /etc/default/rcS</span></span></pre> </div> <div> <span style="color: #222222; font-family: "verdana" , "geneva" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;">Automatically repair filesystems with inconsistencies during boot</span></span></div> <div> <pre class="xtypo_info" style="background: url("assets/shadow.png") 50% 100% repeat-x rgb(245, 245, 245); border-radius: 4px; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); box-shadow: rgb(204, 204, 204) 0px 0px 3px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: Menlo, Monaco, Consolas, 'Courier New', monospace; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1.42857; margin-bottom: 10px; overflow: auto; padding: 9.5px; tab-size: 4; text-shadow: rgb(255, 255, 255) 0px 1px 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; word-break: break-all; word-wrap: break-word;">FSCKFIX=yes</pre> </div> <div> <div style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;"> <span style="color: #222222;"><b>Note:</b> </span><span style="color: red;">FSCKFIX=yes doesn't trigger automatic filesystem check on boot, it just attempts to fix all the errors automatically if fsck is triggered. </span></div> <div style="color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;"> <br /></div> <div style="color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;"> On <a href="http://www.hackthesec.co.in/search/label/Centos">CentOS</a>, edit /etc/sysconfig/autofsck (or create it if it doesn't exist) with the following content.</div> <div> <pre style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-color: #3c3c3c; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-radius: 4px; border: 1px solid rgb(229, 229, 229); margin-bottom: 20px; outline: 0px; overflow: auto; padding: 20px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 15.6px;"># vim /etc/sysconfig/autofsck</span></span></pre> </div> </div> <div> <span style="color: #222222; font-family: "verdana" , "geneva" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;">Add following line:</span></span></div> <div> <pre class="xtypo_info" style="background: url("assets/shadow.png") 50% 100% repeat-x rgb(245, 245, 245); border-radius: 4px; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); box-shadow: rgb(204, 204, 204) 0px 0px 3px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: Menlo, Monaco, Consolas, 'Courier New', monospace; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1.42857; margin-bottom: 10px; overflow: auto; padding: 9.5px; tab-size: 4; text-shadow: rgb(255, 255, 255) 0px 1px 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; word-break: break-all; word-wrap: break-word;">AUTOFSCK_DEF_CHECK=yes</pre> </div> <div> <span style="color: #222222; font-family: "verdana" , "geneva" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;">Checking file system state:</span></span></div> <div> <pre style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-color: #3c3c3c; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-radius: 4px; border: 1px solid rgb(229, 229, 229); margin-bottom: 20px; outline: 0px; overflow: auto; padding: 20px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 15.6px;"># tune2fs -l /dev/nvme0n1 | grep -i state</span></span></pre> </div> <div> <span style="color: #222222; font-family: "verdana" , "geneva" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;">Output:-</span></span></div> <div> <pre class="xtypo_info" style="background: url("assets/shadow.png") 50% 100% repeat-x rgb(245, 245, 245); border-radius: 4px; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); box-shadow: rgb(204, 204, 204) 0px 0px 3px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: Menlo, Monaco, Consolas, 'Courier New', monospace; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1.42857; margin-bottom: 10px; overflow: auto; padding: 9.5px; tab-size: 4; text-shadow: rgb(255, 255, 255) 0px 1px 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; word-break: break-all; word-wrap: break-word;">Filesystem state:clean</pre> </div> <div> <span style="color: #222222; font-family: "verdana" , "geneva" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;">Listing all other attributes</span></span></div> <div> <pre style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-color: #3c3c3c; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-radius: 4px; border: 1px solid rgb(229, 229, 229); margin-bottom: 20px; outline: 0px; overflow: auto; padding: 20px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 15.6px;"># tune2fs -l /dev/nvme0n1</span></span></pre> </div> <div> <div> <span style="color: #222222; font-family: "verdana" , "geneva" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;">Output:-</span></span></div> <div> <pre class="xtypo_info" style="background: url("assets/shadow.png") 50% 100% repeat-x rgb(245, 245, 245); border-radius: 4px; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); box-shadow: rgb(204, 204, 204) 0px 0px 3px; box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: normal; margin-bottom: 10px; overflow: auto; padding: 9.5px; tab-size: 4; text-shadow: rgb(255, 255, 255) 0px 1px 0px; word-break: break-all; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "menlo" , "monaco" , "consolas" , "courier new" , monospace;"><span style="line-height: 18.5714px; white-space: pre-wrap;">tune2fs 1.39 (29-May-2006) Filesystem volume name: <none> Last mounted on: <not available> Filesystem UUID: ca04ea89-dd64-4e57-a5a2-a9cfff610da0 Filesystem magic number: 0xEF53 Filesystem revision #: 1 (dynamic) Filesystem features: has_journal ext_attr resize_inode dir_index filetype needs_recovery sparse_super large_file Default mount options: acl Filesystem state: clean Errors behavior: Continue Filesystem OS type: Linux Inode count: 61063168 Block count: 122096646 Reserved block count: 6104832 Free blocks: 119393584 Free inodes: 61062869 First block: 0 Block size: 4096 Fragment size: 4096 Reserved GDT blocks: 994 Blocks per group: 32768 Fragments per group: 32768 Inodes per group: 16384 Inode blocks per group: 512 Filesystem created: Fri Feb 5 04:42:53 2016 Last mount time: Tue Mar 15 02:03:45 2016 Last write time: Tue Mar 15 02:03:45 2016 Mount count: 26 Maximum mount count: 31 Last checked: Fri Feb 5 04:42:53 2016 Check interval: 15552000 (6 months) Next check after: Wed Aug 3 05:42:53 2016 Reserved blocks uid: 0 (user root) Reserved blocks gid: 0 (group root) First inode: 11 Inode size: 128 Journal inode: 8 Default directory hash: tea Directory Hash Seed: d757b293-691f-4220-890e-70cda6889cc8 Journal backup: inode blocks</span></span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "menlo" , "monaco" , "consolas" , "courier new" , monospace; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.42857; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></pre> </div> </div> <div> <br /></div> <div> <span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: "verdana" , "geneva" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;"><b><u>Schedule  File System Checks Monthly</u></b></span></span></div> <div> <span style="font-family: "verdana" , "geneva" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;">Force filesystem check for every 1 months, use the command below.</span></span></div> <div> <pre style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-color: #3c3c3c; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-radius: 4px; border: 1px solid rgb(229, 229, 229); margin-bottom: 20px; outline: 0px; overflow: auto; padding: 20px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 15.6px;"># tune2fs -i 1m /dev/nvme0n1</span></span></pre> </div> <div> <div> <span style="color: #222222; font-family: "verdana" , "geneva" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;">Output:-</span></span></div> <div> <pre class="xtypo_info" style="background: url("assets/shadow.png") 50% 100% repeat-x rgb(245, 245, 245); border-radius: 4px; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); box-shadow: rgb(204, 204, 204) 0px 0px 3px; box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: normal; margin-bottom: 10px; overflow: auto; padding: 9.5px; tab-size: 4; text-shadow: rgb(255, 255, 255) 0px 1px 0px; word-break: break-all; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "menlo" , "monaco" , "consolas" , "courier new" , monospace; line-height: 18.5714px; white-space: pre-wrap;">tune2fs 1.39 (29-May-2006)</span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "menlo" , "monaco" , "consolas" , "courier new" , monospace;"><span style="line-height: 18.5714px; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Setting interval between checks to </span></span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "menlo" , "monaco" , "consolas" , "courier new" , monospace; line-height: 18.5714px; white-space: pre-wrap;">15552000</span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "menlo" , "monaco" , "consolas" , "courier new" , monospace; line-height: 18.5714px; white-space: pre-wrap;"> seconds</span></pre> </div> </div> <div> <span style="color: #222222; font-family: "verdana" , "geneva" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;">Now verify the scheduled monthly disk check.</span></span></div> <div> <pre style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-color: #3c3c3c; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-radius: 4px; border: 1px solid rgb(229, 229, 229); margin-bottom: 20px; outline: 0px; overflow: auto; padding: 20px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 15.6px;"># tune2fs -l /dev/nvme0n1 | grep -i interval</span></span></pre> </div> <div> <div> <span style="color: #222222; font-family: "verdana" , "geneva" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;">Output:-</span></span></div> <div> <pre class="xtypo_info" style="background: url("assets/shadow.png") 50% 100% repeat-x rgb(245, 245, 245); border-radius: 4px; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); box-shadow: rgb(204, 204, 204) 0px 0px 3px; box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: normal; margin-bottom: 10px; overflow: auto; padding: 9.5px; tab-size: 4; text-shadow: rgb(255, 255, 255) 0px 1px 0px; word-break: break-all; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "menlo" , "monaco" , "consolas" , "courier new" , monospace;"><span style="line-height: 18.5714px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Check interval: 15552000 (1 months)</span></span></pre> <pre class="xtypo_info" style="background: url("assets/shadow.png") 50% 100% repeat-x rgb(245, 245, 245); border-radius: 4px; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); box-shadow: rgb(204, 204, 204) 0px 0px 3px; box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: normal; margin-bottom: 10px; overflow: auto; padding: 9.5px; tab-size: 4; text-shadow: rgb(255, 255, 255) 0px 1px 0px; word-break: break-all; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "menlo" , "monaco" , "consolas" , "courier new" , monospace;"><a href="http://www.hackthesec.co.in/" style="line-height: 18.5714px; white-space: pre-wrap;">www.hackthesec.co.in</a><span style="line-height: 18.5714px; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><a href="https://www.twitter.com/Hackthesecurity" style="line-height: 18.5714px; 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<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <h1 class="entry-title" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: proxima-nova, sans-serif; line-height: 3.4rem; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="color: red; font-size: large;"><u>Install ProFTPD on CentOS 6</u></span></h1> <div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.2px;"> <b style="color: #222222; font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;">ProFTPD </b><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;">(short for Pro FTP daemon) is an </span><a href="http://www.hackthesec.co.in/search/label/ftp" style="color: #999999; text-decoration: none;">FTP server</a><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;">. ProFTPD is Free and open-source software, compatible with Unix-like systems and Microsoft Windows (via Cygwin). Along with </span><a href="http://www.hackthesec.co.in/search/label/vsftp" style="color: #999999; font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px; text-decoration: none;">vsftpd</a><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;"> and Pure-FTPd, ProFTPD is among the most popular FTP servers in </span></div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.2px; text-align: center;"> <img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhr45fLBm5B3qr3E_CEJ5KuZUrSdFkVs80KSv10Df6qJ6nUOVi87vnMY5LJDD7YL9QuqqK26UAfgpgxrqSMKsHMQ-kx54qElbc6d-6Iwn75dk9isdDXrxkmkjMepG2ZgBtZ80wDXGTqTLCY/s1600/proftpd-www.hackthesec.co.in.png" style="border: 1px solid rgb(192, 192, 192); height: auto; max-width: 95%; padding: 4px;" /></div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.2px;"> <span style="color: #222222; line-height: 19.2px;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;">Unix-like environments today. Compared to those, which focus e.g. on simplicity, speed or security, ProFTPD's primary design goal is to be a highly feature rich FTP server, exposing a large amount of configuration options to the user</span></span><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;">.</span></div> </div> <div style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; line-height: 19.2px;"> <strong style="line-height: 19.2px;"><a class="titlex" href="http://www.hackthesec.co.in/2016/03/how-to-install-proftpd-on-centos-7.html" style="display: block; font-family: 'Open Sans', serif, sans-serif; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1.4em; margin: 5px 0px 0px; max-height: 36px; overflow: hidden; text-decoration: none;"></a><ul style="text-align: left;"><a class="titlex" href="http://www.hackthesec.co.in/2016/03/how-to-install-proftpd-on-centos-7.html" style="display: block; font-family: 'Open Sans', serif, sans-serif; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1.4em; margin: 5px 0px 0px; max-height: 36px; overflow: hidden; text-decoration: none;"></a> <li><a class="titlex" href="http://www.hackthesec.co.in/2016/03/how-to-install-proftpd-on-centos-7.html" style="display: block; font-family: 'Open Sans', serif, sans-serif; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1.4em; margin: 5px 0px 0px; max-height: 36px; overflow: hidden; text-decoration: none;"><strong style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; line-height: 19.2px;"></strong></a><strong style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; line-height: 19.2px;"><a class="titlex" href="http://www.hackthesec.co.in/2016/03/how-to-install-proftpd-on-centos-7.html" style="display: inline !important; font-family: 'Open Sans', serif, sans-serif; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1.4em; margin: 5px 0px 0px; max-height: 36px; overflow: hidden; text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: red;">How to Install ProFTPD on CentOS 7</span></a></strong></li> </ul> </strong></div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.2px;"> <span style="color: #222222; font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;"><br /></span></div> <div style="background-color: white;"> <div style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; line-height: 26px;"> <b><u><span style="color: #0b5394;">Step 1: Add the EPEL Repository</span></u></b></div> <div style="color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;"> ProFTPD is part of Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux (<a href="http://www.hackthesec.co.in/search/label/EPEL_Repo" style="color: #999999; text-decoration: none;">EPEL</a>), which is a community repository of non-standard packages for the <a href="http://www.hackthesec.co.in/search/label/EPEL" style="color: #999999; text-decoration: none;">RHEL</a> distribution. First, we’ll install the EPEL repository:</div> <div> <pre style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-color: #3c3c3c; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-radius: 4px; border: 1px solid rgb(229, 229, 229); margin-bottom: 20px; outline: 0px; overflow: auto; padding: 20px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 15.6px;">rpm -iUvh http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/x86_64/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm</span></span></pre> </div> </div> <div style="background-color: white;"> <div style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; line-height: 26px;"> <div> <b><u><span style="color: #0b5394;">Step 2: Install ProFTPD</span></u></b></div> <div style="color: #222222; font-size: 15px;"> As a matter of best practice we’ll update our packages:</div> </div> <div style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.2px;"> <pre style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-color: #3c3c3c; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: initial; border-radius: 4px; border: 1px solid rgb(229, 229, 229); margin-bottom: 20px; outline: 0px; overflow: auto; padding: 20px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 15.6px;">yum -y update</span></span></pre> </div> <div style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.2px;"> <span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;">Then let’s install ProFTPD and any required packages:</span></span></div> <div style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.2px;"> <pre style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-color: #3c3c3c; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: initial; border-radius: 4px; border: 1px solid rgb(229, 229, 229); margin-bottom: 20px; outline: 0px; overflow: auto; padding: 20px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 15.6px;">yum -y install proftpd</span></span></pre> </div> <div style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.2px;"> <div> <span style="color: #0b5394;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;"><b><u>Step 3: Configure ProFTPD</u></b></span></span></div> <div> <span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;">Let’s edit the configuration file for ProFTPD:</span></span></div> </div> <div style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.2px;"> <pre style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-color: #3c3c3c; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: initial; border-radius: 4px; border: 1px solid rgb(229, 229, 229); margin-bottom: 20px; outline: 0px; overflow: auto; padding: 20px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 15.6px;">vi /etc/proftpd.conf</span></span></pre> </div> <div style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.2px;"> <div> <div style="color: #222222; font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;"> Change the <b>ServerName to the hostname of your server</b>. In the case below, ftp.hackthesec.co.in is an example:</div> <div style="color: #222222; font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;"> <br /></div> <div style="color: #222222; font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;"> <b>ServerName </b>"ftp.hackthesec.co.in"</div> </div> <div> <span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;"><br /></span></span></div> <div> <span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;">Exit and save the file with the command :wq .</span></span></div> <div> <span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;"><br /></span></span></div> <div> <span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;"><b><u>Restart the ProFTPD service:</u></b></span></span></div> </div> <div> <pre style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-color: #3c3c3c; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-radius: 4px; border: 1px solid rgb(229, 229, 229); margin-bottom: 20px; outline: 0px; overflow: auto; padding: 20px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 15.6px;">service proftpd restart</span></span></pre> </div> <div style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.2px;"> <span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;">Then set the ProFTPD service to start at boot:</span></span></div> </div> <div style="background-color: white;"> <pre style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-color: #3c3c3c; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-radius: 4px; border: 1px solid rgb(229, 229, 229); margin-bottom: 20px; outline: 0px; overflow: auto; padding: 20px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 15.6px;">chkconfig proftpd on</span></span></pre> </div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.2px;"> <pre style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-color: #3c3c3c; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: initial; border-radius: 4px; border: 1px solid rgb(229, 229, 229); line-height: 19.2px; margin-bottom: 20px; outline: 0px; overflow: auto; padding: 20px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: red; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 15.6px;"><a href="http://www.hackthesec.co.in/" style="color: #999999; text-decoration: none;">www.hackthesec.co.in</a> <a href="http://facebook.com/htsecu" style="color: #999999; text-decoration: none;">HackTheSec Facebook</a> <a href="https://www.twitter.com/Hackthesecurity" style="color: #999999; text-decoration: none;">HackTheSec Twitter</a> <a href="http://feeds.hackthesec.co.in/hackthesec" style="color: #999999; text-decoration: none;">HackTheSec Feed</a></span></span></pre> </div> </div>

How to Install ProFTPD on CentOS 6

Install ProFTPD on CentOS 6 ProFTPD (short for Pro FTP daemon) is an FTP server. ProFTPD is Free and open-source software, compatible with Unix-like systems and Microsoft Windows (via Cygwin). Along …

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How to Install ProFTPD on CentOS 7

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <h1 class="entry-title" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: proxima-nova, sans-serif; line-height: 3.4rem; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="color: red; font-size: large;"><u>Install ProFTPD on CentOS 7</u></span></h1> <div> <b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;">ProFTPD </b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;">(short for Pro FTP daemon) is an </span><a href="http://www.hackthesec.co.in/search/label/ftp">FTP server</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;">. ProFTPD is Free and open-source software, compatible with Unix-like systems and Microsoft Windows (via Cygwin). Along with </span><a href="http://www.hackthesec.co.in/search/label/vsftp" style="background-color: white; color: #999999; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px; text-decoration: none;">vsftpd</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;"> and Pure-FTPd, ProFTPD is among the most popular FTP servers in </span></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhr45fLBm5B3qr3E_CEJ5KuZUrSdFkVs80KSv10Df6qJ6nUOVi87vnMY5LJDD7YL9QuqqK26UAfgpgxrqSMKsHMQ-kx54qElbc6d-6Iwn75dk9isdDXrxkmkjMepG2ZgBtZ80wDXGTqTLCY/s1600/proftpd-www.hackthesec.co.in.png" /></div> <div> <span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.2px;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;">Unix-like environments today. Compared to those, which focus e.g. on simplicity, speed or security, ProFTPD's primary design goal is to be a highly feature rich FTP server, exposing a large amount of configuration options to the user</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;">.</span></div> <div> <span style="background-color: white;"><div style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;"> <b><u><span style="color: #0b5394;">Step 1: Add the EPEL Repository</span></u></b></div> <div style="color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;"> ProFTPD is part of Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux (<a href="http://www.hackthesec.co.in/search/label/EPEL">EPEL</a>), which is a community repository of non-standard packages for the <a href="http://www.hackthesec.co.in/search/label/EPEL">RHEL</a> distribution. First, we’ll install the EPEL repository:</div> <div> <pre style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-color: #3c3c3c; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-radius: 4px; border: 1px solid rgb(229, 229, 229); margin-bottom: 20px; outline: 0px; overflow: auto; padding: 20px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 15.6px;">rpm -iUvh http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/7/x86_64/e/epel-release-7-5.noarch.rpm</span></span></pre> </div> <div style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;"> <div> <b><u><span style="color: #0b5394;">Step 2: Install ProFTPD</span></u></b></div> <div style="color: #222222;"> As a matter of best practice we’ll update our packages:</div> </div> <div> <pre style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-color: #3c3c3c; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-radius: 4px; border: 1px solid rgb(229, 229, 229); margin-bottom: 20px; outline: 0px; overflow: auto; padding: 20px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 15.6px;">yum -y update</span></span></pre> </div> <div> <span style="color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;">Then let’s install ProFTPD and any required packages:</span></span></div> <div> <pre style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-color: #3c3c3c; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-radius: 4px; border: 1px solid rgb(229, 229, 229); margin-bottom: 20px; outline: 0px; overflow: auto; padding: 20px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 15.6px;">yum -y install proftpd</span></span></pre> </div> <div> <div> <span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;"><b><u>Step 3: Configure ProFTPD</u></b></span></span></div> <div> <span style="color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;">Let’s edit the configuration file for ProFTPD:</span></span></div> </div> <div> <pre style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-color: #3c3c3c; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-radius: 4px; border: 1px solid rgb(229, 229, 229); margin-bottom: 20px; outline: 0px; overflow: auto; padding: 20px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 15.6px;">vi /etc/proftpd.conf</span></span></pre> </div> <div> <div> <div style="color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;"> Change the <b>ServerName to the hostname of your server</b>. In the case below, ftp.hackthesec.co.in is an example:</div> <div style="color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;"> <br /></div> <div style="color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;"> <b>ServerName </b>"ftp.hackthesec.co.in"</div> </div> <div> <span style="color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;"><br /></span></span></div> <div> <span style="color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;">Exit and save the file with the command :wq .</span></span></div> <div> <span style="color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;"><br /></span></span></div> <div> <span style="color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;"><b><u>Restart the ProFTPD service:</u></b></span></span></div> </div> <div> <pre style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-color: #3c3c3c; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-radius: 4px; border: 1px solid rgb(229, 229, 229); margin-bottom: 20px; outline: 0px; overflow: auto; padding: 20px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 15.6px;">systemctl restart proftpd</span></span></pre> </div> <div> <span style="color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;">Then set the ProFTPD service to start at boot:</span></span></div> <div> <pre style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-color: #3c3c3c; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-radius: 4px; border: 1px solid rgb(229, 229, 229); margin-bottom: 20px; outline: 0px; overflow: auto; padding: 20px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 15.6px;">systemctl enable proftpd</span></span></pre> </div> <div> <span style="color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;">And verify your work by checking the status of ProFTPD:</span></span></div> <div> <pre style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-color: #3c3c3c; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-radius: 4px; border: 1px solid rgb(229, 229, 229); margin-bottom: 20px; outline: 0px; overflow: auto; padding: 20px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 15.6px;">systemctl status proftpd</span></span></pre> </div> <div style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px;"> <div> <b><u><span style="color: #0b5394;">Step 4: Allow ProFTPD Through the Firewall</span></u></b></div> <div style="color: #222222;"> Allow the default FTP port,<b> port 21</b>, through <b>firewalld</b>:</div> </div> <div> <pre style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-color: #3c3c3c; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: initial; border-image-outset: initial; 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