the most famous method is using D parameter in ssh connection to bind a port local in your machine and this port tunnel back to our remote box to send our traffic to this server example
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then you can configure your application and browser to use your local IP 127.0.0.1 with the port 1337 […]
pam_tally2 is a PAM module to allow interaction in users interfaces on numbers of failed login attempt it can reset count on success, can deny access if too many attempts fail. this module is unique because it not just reflect remote connection but also reflect the ttys and any system login method as it uses PAM example […]
cracklib pam module is a method to check the password against dictionary list and gives you availability to check the strength of the password and set rules to identify the poor passwords here is the most important parameters for this module minlen minimal password length dcredit maximum number of digits ucredit maximum uppercase letters […]
Linux comes with Pam Modules to help you to interact with the running services in hardening way and custom the security of the service as you need. PAM is extra Rules to Control user interfaces ( Auth, Account, Session) layers for the applications the applications/services should be compiled with libpam.so here is an example for […]
this article explain the /etc/shadow this file content the users information example of the user data
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n1x:$6$UoDmVdoW$tYQQm5uHgOpeEKPygIaQ1GM/0IBbdYVrLHu8ZYF5pT17D3VM.FFKa2wS8J6gqbGKC2IpgImXy7SYVJK9r/fdw.:16631:7:15:2:14:16819: |
username -> n1x password -> $6$UoDmVdoW$tYQQm5uHgOpeEKPygIaQ1GM/0IBbdYVrLHu8ZYF5pT17D3VM.FFKa2wS8J6gqbGKC2IpgImXy7SYVJK9r/fdw. last date password update since 1970-1-1 -> 16631 you can calculate it simply in python
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>>> from datetime import timedelta,datetime >>> s = '1970-01-01' >>> x = datetime.strptime(s,"%Y-%m-%d") >>> x + timedelta(days=16631) datetime.datetime(2015, 7, 15, 0, 0) |
minmum password age -> 7 maximum password age -> 15 warning days -> 2 inactive days […]
this article about Intrusion Detection for file system changes like modification changing owner extra, for critical files or directories in our environment we using a software called AIDE Advanced Intrusion Detections Environment this software base on a library called mhash this lib used to calculate file hashes and AIDE save the file info inside DB […]
what is umask? umask is the default permissions for writing a file in the system where the settings for umask? 1 – /etc/profile 2 – /etc/bashrc
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if [ $UID -gt 199 ] && [ "`id -gn`" = "`id -un`" ]; then umask 002 else umask 022 fi |
creating a encrypted disk with luks our Little problem here to mount a encrypted disk automatically on boot so no need to enter the pass for mounting but this risky if the machine theft happen because we will use a key inside the system and it will be leaked if our machine stolen so lets […]
today we going to make an encrypted disk partition list prepare our partition I have a new disk in /dev/sdb I will create a partition 100 on it with fdisk
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[root@localhost ~]# fdisk /dev/sdb Welcome to fdisk (util-linux 2.25.2). Changes will remain in memory only, until you decide to write them. Be careful before using the write command. /dev/sdb: device contains a valid 'crypto_LUKS' signature, it's strongly recommended to wipe the device by command wipefs(8) if this setup is unexpected to avoid possible collisions. Device does not contain a recognized partition table. Created a new DOS disklabel with disk identifier 0xc0e7edd0. Command (m for help): p Disk /dev/sdb: 1 GiB, 1073741824 bytes, 2097152 sectors Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disklabel type: dos Disk identifier: 0xc0e7edd0 Command (m for help): n Partition type p primary (0 primary, 0 extended, 4 free) e extended (container for logical partitions) Select (default p): p Partition number (1-4, default 1): First sector (2048-2097151, default 2048): Last sector, +sectors or +size{K,M,G,T,P} (2048-2097151, default 2097151): +100M Created a new partition 1 of type 'Linux' and of size 100 MiB. Command (m for help): w The partition table has been altered. Calling ioctl() to re-read partition table. Syncing disks. [root@localhost ~]# fdisk /dev/sdb Welcome to fdisk (util-linux 2.25.2). Changes will remain in memory only, until you decide to write them. Be careful before using the write command. Command (m for help): p Disk /dev/sdb: 1 GiB, 1073741824 bytes, 2097152 sectors Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disklabel type: dos Disk identifier: 0xc0e7edd0 Device Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type /dev/sdb1 2048 206847 204800 100M 83 Linux |
Yum repository comes with gpg and md5 support to verify the validity of the package You can list installed gpg keys in your system via
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It will show the unique id for the installed keys in your system gpg-pubkey-e8562897-459f07a4 gpg-pubkey-217521f6-45e8a532 To list all information related to a key rpm -qi pgp-key-unique-id
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Name : gpg-pubkey Relocations: (not relocatable) Version : 6b8d79e6 Vendor: (none) Release : 3f49313d Build Date: Wed Jan 16 03:03:02 2013 Install Date: Wed Jan 16 03:03:02 2013 Build Host: localhost Group : Public Keys Source RPM: (none) Size : 0 License: pubkey Signature : (none) Summary : gpg(Dag Wieers (Dag Apt Repository v1.0) <dag@wieers.com>) Description : -----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK----- Version: rpm-4.4.2.3 (NSS-3) mQGiBD9JMT0RBAC9Q2B0AloUMTxaK73sD0cOu1MMdD8yuDagbMlDtUYA1aGeJVO6 TV02JLGr67OBY+UkYuC1c3PUwmb3+jakZd5bW1L8E2L705wS0129xQOZPz6J+alF 5rTzVkiefg8ch1yEcMayK20NdyOmhDGXQXNQS8OJFLTIC6bJs+7MZL83/wCg3cG3 3q7MWHm3IpJb+6QKpB9YH58D/2WjPDK+7YIky/JbFBT4JPgTSBy611+bLqHA6PXq 39tzY6un8KDznAMNtm+NAsr6FEG8PHe406+tbgd7tBkecz3HPX8nR5v0JtDT+gzN 8fM3kAiAzjCHUAFWVAMAZLr5TXuoq4lGTTxvZbwTjZfyjCm7gIieCu8+qnPWh6hm 30NgA/0ZyEHG6I4rOWqPks4vZuD+wlp5XL8moBXEKfEVOMh2MCNDRGnvVHu1P3eD oHOooVMt9sWrGcgxpYuupPNL4Uf6B6smiLlH6D4tEg+qCxC17zABI5572XJTJ170 JklZJrPGtnkPrrKMamnN9MU4RjGmjh9JZPa7rKjZHyWP/z/CBrQ1RGFnIFdpZWVy cyAoRGFnIEFwdCBSZXBvc2l0b3J5IHYxLjApIDxkYWdAd2llZXJzLmNvbT6IWQQT EQIAGQUCP0kxPQQLBwMCAxUCAwMWAgECHgECF4AACgkQog5SFGuNeeYvDQCeKHST hIq/WzFBXtJOnQkJGSqAoHoAnRtsJVWYmzYKHqzkRx1qAzL18Sd0iEYEEBECAAYF Aj9JMWAACgkQoj2iXPqnmevnOACfRQaageMcESHVE1+RSuP3txPUvoEAoJAtOHon g+3SzVNSZLn/g7/Ljfw+uQENBD9JMT8QBACj1QzRptL6hbpWl5DdQ2T+3ekEjJGt llCwt4Mwt/yOHDhzLe8SzUNyYxTXUL4TPfFvVW9/j8WOkNGvffbs7g84k7a5h/+l IJTTlP9V9NruDt1dlrBe+mWF6eCY55OFHjb6nOIkcJwKxRd3nGlWnLsz0ce9Hjrg 6lMrn0lPsMV6swADBQP9H42sss6mlqnJEFA97Fl3V9s+7UVJoAIA5uSVXxEOwVoh Vq7uECQRvWzif6tzOY+vHkUxOBRvD6oIU6tlmuG3WByKyA1d0MTqMr3eWieSYf/L n5VA9NuD7NwjFA1kLkoDwfSbsF51LppTMkUggzwgvwE46MB6yyuqAVI1kReAWw+I RgQYEQIABgUCP0kxPwAKCRCiDlIUa4155oktAKDAzm9QYbDpk6SrQhkSFy016BjE BACeJU1hpElFnUZCL4yKj4EuLnlo8kc= =mqUt-----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK----- |
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