This guide will show how to install and configure a DNS Server in RHEL 8 / CentOS 8 in caching mode only or as single DNS Server, no master-slave configuration. A reverse and forward zone example is provided.
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This article will describe how to install the open source communication software Asterisk on RHEL 8 / CentOS 8; due to the fact that Asterisk and other important dependencies are not available as RPM packages from the repositories, it is needed to compile them from sources.
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Xinetd, or the Extended Internet Services Daemon, is a so-called super-server. You can configure it to listen in the place of many services, and start the service that should handle an incoming request only when there it actually arrives to the system – thus saving resources. While this may not seem to be a big deal on a system where traffic is relatively permanent, this service in the front of another approach does have some neat advantages, like logging or access control.
In this article we will install xinetd on a RHEL 8 / CentOS 8, and we’ll put the sshd daemon under it’s care. After verifying the setup, we’ll tweak the configuration a bit to see the access control in action.
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This tutorial covers gradual guide to setup a Kerberos Server (KDC) and Kerberos Enabled Client, then testing the setup by obtaining a Kerberos Ticket from the KDC server.
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Remote connection to computers is as old as computer networks. Accessing the graphical interface (GUI) is a convenient way of working on a remote desktop. We can leave our graphical programs running and working, and we don’t need to keep the session open – we simply reconnect when we feel to do so.
VNC server is well-known graphical session server enabling remote connections that we can run with a non-privileged user. This way many users can access their own desktop on the same machine remotely, and will not block each other (apart from maybe using up the resources of the remove machine).
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The syslog functionality is one of the main tools for a sysadmin. While writing logfiles with events of interest is a common feature of any application, having a system-wide logging functionality means all logs can be handled as one on the system. But syslog does not stop there. With these tool, a sysadmin can centralize log processing in the datacenter by forwarding the incoming events from applications to central logservers, where they can be processed at a large scale.
Centralized logging is an overkill on a home system with a few computers, but already have it’s benefits around a dozen machine. For example, a dozen desktops sending all their logfiles to a central logserver mean they don’t need to store them on the long run, the logs will occupy disk space in the logserver. The admin can check for problems in only one place (possibly by means of automated reports), the logs can be preserved in a safe way by the means of backups, stored more effective by means of heavy compressing, and will not be lost on a client’s failure or user error.
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Postfix is a common mail server, many large distributions are shipped with Postfix installed by default. The default configuration allows local mailing only, but that in itself is very useful on a machine used by many users, and even if there is no such traffic, many services dump their reports and messages into e-mails, which is delivered to the root user locally, so the sysadmin will be noticed on any events of interest when he/she logs in and switches to root user.
A simple example would be scheduled cron jobs: any output not redirected from the output of a script running from cron will be wrapped to an e-mail and will be delivered to root‘s mailbox, so the administrator does not even have to make any effort to have the reports of the nightly backup jobs at hand.
While this standalone mode is certainly a nice service as it is, postfix is a full-fledged mail server, capable of receiving, forwarding, relaying, filtering of e-mails, it basically have every feature we need for a mail server.
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Install Nextcloud on Ubuntu 18.04
Ubuntu 18.04
A working install of Ubuntu 18.04 with root privileges
Easy
sudo commandWhen it comes to self hosted cloud storage Nextcloud is definitely the best option. It’s fully open source, and allows you full control over your server. You can, of course, create your own user accounts and manage access too.
There are a couple of options when it comes to setting up Nextcloud on Ubuntu. You can use Docker or you can follow the traditional install method. Either one will work. The Docker method will probably work better if you don’t want to configure and manage the entire server yourself.
Our objective is to setup Apache httpd to work as a proxy in front of the Apache Tomcat application container.
Privileged access to the system
EASY
sudo commandUsing Apache httpd as a proxy to an Apache Tomcat application container is a common setup. It comes with many use cases, the most trivial is serving static content from httpd, while providing services implementing heavy business logic from an application written in Java that resides in the Tomcat container.
The default TTY console resolution on Ubuntu 18.04 Server is normally 800×600. This may be satisfactory in many cases. However, there are times that higher resolution is required. To increase TTY console resolution on the Ubuntu 18.04 server it is necessary to change the configuration of the relevant GRUB boot loader settings within the /etc/default/grub.
Install and configure Nagios on Ubuntu 18.04 Bionic Beaver
Ubuntu 18.04
A working install of Ubuntu 18.04 with root privileges
Easy
sudo commandNagios is one of the best enterprise grade server monitoring solutions available. Unlike cPanel, it’s available across a wide range of Linux distributions, including Debian and Ubuntu.
Since Ubuntu 18.04 is an LTS release, upgrading your servers and running Nagios on them could be a great idea. Even though Nagios isn’t up to date in the Ubuntu repositories, and setup isn’t turn-key, it’s still not too hard to get it running.
Our objective is to install and configure a standalone FreeIPA server on Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
Privileged access to the target server, available software repository.
MEDIUM
sudo commandFreeIPA is mainly a directory service, where you can store information about your users, and their rights regarding login, become root, or just run a specific command as root on your systems that are joined your FreeIPA domain, and many more. Although this is the main feature of the service, there are optional components that can be very useful, like DNS and PKI – this makes FreeIPA an essential infrastructural part of a Linux-based system. It has a nice web-based GUI, and powerful command line interface.