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IPv6 Tunnel on pfSense

Hi, in this tutorial I will be showing you how to setup IPv6 connectivity for your network using he.net and pfsense. Pop on over to he.net and create an account Create a regular tunnel and you should be given a page of details like the following Download the following script Open the script with your [...]

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Understanding and Preventing Fork Bombs

A fork bomb is just a bash function that gets called recursively. Once a fork bomb is active on a machine it may not be able to preform normally until a reboot is made, as the only solution to the fork bomb is to kill all its processes. Bash Functions A fork bomb is really [...]

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Passwordless SSH login using SSH Keys

SSH keys allow you to login without requiring you to type in your password this tutorial will teach you how to set them up First we need to create the key ssh-keygen -t rsa Then we need to move it over to the machine that we want to be able to login too without the [...]

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Chroot Sftp

Create a Chrooted group addgroup chrooted Open up /etc/ssh/sshd_config and add the following to the end of it Subsystem sftp internal-sftp Match group chrooted ChrootDirectory /home/%u X11Forwarding no ForceCommand internal-sftp Restart SSHD /etc/init.d/ssh restart Then make users chrooted by adding them to the chrooted group adduser user chrooted Now when the user sftps the server [...]

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Stopping SSH brute force attacks using iptables

If your running a SSH server on the default port(22) you've probably noticed a lot of failed login attempts cause due to brute force attacks Adding the following to your IP tables will only allow 3 connections at once from any IP if it goes above 3 then that IP is locked out for 3minutes. [...]

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