Category : Linux Tutorials

If you’re using and unsecured FTP connection, your usernames and passwords are being sent in plain text over the Internet. This is highly insecure. The solution is to implement encryption via SSL or TLS. This step by step tutorial will show you how to do this using the Pure-FTPd client. You can even use your own HTTPS certificates that you already have for your server.

Ideally of course, you’d get your certificated signed by a trusted CA to avoid warning messages on browsers. But if you just want to see how the process works, you can create your own self signed certificate on a Linux server so that it can accept HTTPS requests.

If you’re looking for a straightforward way to install an FTP server on your Linux machine through the command line, look no further. Here’s a complete step by step tutorial with screenshots to guide you along the way.

Here’s a complete step by step tutorial for installing Apache 2, MariaDB 10.2 and PHP 7.1 on a brand new server right from the command line. Learn how to start the service, open the ports, enable it on boot, and test it out.

If you want to enforce CentOS password policies on your users, this simple step by step tutorial will show you how. Also, understand how the PAM module uses a “credit” system to determine the strength of a password and how we can configure it.

Private key authentication allows you to log into your server without a password. Here’s a step by step tutorial on using a Windows client to connect to a Linux server via SSH and private keys. All you need is server access – nothing more.