Tag Archives: redhat enterprise linux

January, 2010

• 15 January

  SELinux: Extra security protection

  SELinux stands for Security-Enhanced Linux and is a comprehensive feature of Linux that allows system administrators to control security access policies with highly advanced modules in the Linux kernel. It can be applied to any Linux distribution and comes installed by default on some. It was originally based upon projects …

December, 2009

• 23 December

  How to install and configure ProFTPD in RHEL/CentOS/Fedora Linux

  ProFTPD is one of the most widely used and trust Linux-based FTP servers. When installed on a dedicated server, ProFTPD can act as a virtual ftp server host to multiple user accounts. It also allows anonymous FTP, if needed, chroot jail support, SSL/TLS encryption, and much more. nixCraft has an …

September, 2009

• 1 September

  Updating Redhat Enterprise Linux 5

  Users of Redhat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) were probably accustomed to using a command called “up2date” to update and install security patches and new software releases on their servers. As many well know, however, RHEL is based on the Fedora code base, and Fedora never relied on up2date. Instead, Fedora uses …