Category: Networking
Setup a Postfix Alias Email Account
Recently, my business had the need to create an email account for general inquiries. Since I’m currently the only employee, the email will be sent to me, but I’d like to publish a contact email address in some instances rather than my personal email address. The email address I decided to publish rather than my […]
Basic iptables Firewall
The iptables software is a user space application for configuring packet filtering in the Linux kernel. iptables is used to set rules for packets that travel through a host’s network stack and at certain points, called hooks, the iptables rules are evaluated and actions, such as dropping a packet, can be executed. In this post […]
Adding a Samba Share
This post will use Samba Version 4.1.6-Ubuntu (the version in use on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS Server at the time of this writing) to setup Samba (smb) shares from a drive attached to a server on a local network. Three shares will be created: dropbox, hub, and restricted which will correspond to directories on the attached drive […]
SSH Server Hardening
The following is a list of things that can, and probably should, be done in order to secure an OpenSSH server. This list isn’t necessarily complete, but what is here can significantly improve the server’s defenses against attackers.
SSH Public Key Log In
Using Public Key Cryptography and SSH Tools for Smooth Log In To log in to an SSH server without the needing to enter a password each time can be done in different ways. One way is to to configure your server to allow certain users (or certain users from certain hosts/networks/ip addresses [or ranges]) but […]