How Secure can Secure Shell (SSH) Be? (BASIC CONFIGURATION of OpenSSH)

Secure Shell is one of the protocols that IT specialists use to ensure a secure and reliable connection between remote computer systems. This short guide explains a few things to make your SSH connection more secure. For FreeBSD and OpenBSD, SSH starts automatically...

FreeBSD Programming Primer – Part 10

In the tenth part of our series on programming, we will improve the login process, add more security, and keep spam robots under control. In the previous article we put in place a very crude login system that allowed anyone to login to our CMS and add content. We...

Configuring a Highly Available Service on FreeBSD – Part 1: HAST

One of the problems a system administrator has when providing services like NFS on a network is that sometimes they are critical to the business and downtime needs to be kept to an absolute minimum. This problem can be solved with tools native to FreeBSD. In this...

FreeBSD Programming Primer – Part 9

In the ninth part of our series on programming, we will add some security to our CMS and refine our interface for adding content. In part 8 of the series, we created the PHP script amendcontentpage.php which allowed the user to add data to any table in the CMS (Figure...

Migrating from Linux to FreeBSD

In the following article, I will share with you what I learned when I have converted my servers from Debian to FreeBSD. I will explain the common problems you could have, what you should consider before changing the system and what motivated me for this “adventure”....
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