Adding a new user to your system

If you need to add a new user to your systemm just run the following commands: useradd username That will create a new user, and a new group, for the ‘username’ that you placed in there.  Now, to change the password for that user, run this: passwd username The system will ask you to input […]

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SSH Security

There are many things one can do to help keep your ssh access secure on a shared hosting enviroment.  Grab your client (putty links can be found on the software page), log in, and lets go! The first one, don’t allow it!  Pretty simple huh?  In a shared hosting environment, there are very few reasons […]

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Contributors

I am looking for anyone that wished to contribute articles/posts to this site.  If you wish to lend a hand, please reply to this post.  Articles can be anything related to administering a server.  Basic stuff that we sometimes forget how to do is key.  If you end up being a active contributor, I’ll offer […]

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Suhosin – Changing config values

Suhosin, the hardened php project.  If you are having some troubles running some scripts after you’ve installed, you will have to change some of the configuration values.  There are three ways of doing this, however, I’ll only touch on two of them.  Both require you to have root access to the server.  If you want […]

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Look mom, I’m bloggin!

Well, its now official, welcome to the SolidServers.ca blog.  My intensions for this blog are two fold.  First, I would like any system admin to be able to come here and learn some new stuff, perhaps a different way of doing things, and also, I would like others to contribute.  The second reason for creating […]

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