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How to Enforce Password Quality in Linux

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How to Enforce Password Quality in Linux

One of the easiest ways to improve the security of your server is to ensure that everyone’s password meets a certain minimum length. There are, of course, other considerations like the mix of small and capital letters, numbers, and special characters. But a minimum password length gives you the most “bang for the buck”. Each additional character in a password increases its strength exponentially. In this article, we’ll show you how to enforce a minimum password length for all your users in Linux.

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How to Reset your WordPress Admin Password

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How to Reset your WordPress Admin Password

We’ll show you, How to reset your WordPress admin password. WordPress is a free and open-source content management system (CMS) based on PHP and MySQL which you can use to create a beautiful website. As of 2017, WordPress is used by more than 28.9% of the entire internet.

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Generate a random password from the command line in Linux

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Generate a random password from the command line in Linux

We’ll show you, How to generate a strong password from the command line in Linux. Having a strong password in Linux, is the most important thing you can do to protect your account or server and to keep your data secure. Common thinking is that a strong password should be comprised of at least 14 characters, including lowercase and uppercase alphabetic characters, numbers and symbols and should never be based on a dictionary word. Using a long password is much more secure that using a short one, the longer the password the harder it is to guess. In this post, we will take a look at a several different ways to generate a strong password using the Linux command line.

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SSH login without password

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ssh login without password

SSH or Secure SHELL is the most popular and trusted UNIX-based cryptographic network protocol. It can be used for secure data communication, remote server logins, remote command execution, and many other secure network services between two networked servers. Normally, password authentication is used to connect to a remote server via SSH. In this blog tutorial we will show you how to login to a remote Linux VPS without password, using SSH keys. This method is more secure than using a password.

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How to Reset MariaDB Root Password

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How to Reset MariaDB Root Password

We’ll show you, how to reset MariaDB root password.  Did you forget your MariaDB root password? Do not worry, there is an easy way to reset your password on MariaDB in less than 5 minutes. Please note that you need to have root access to your server to be able to change the password of MariaDB. Resetting your MariaDB root password on your Linux server is an easy task if you carefully follow our tutorial below.

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Security Tips for Your Server

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securityOne of the first things you should do when running a Virtual Private Server (VPS) is to secure your server as much as possible. This way you will protect your server against various security attacks which may harm or even destroy your data.

Here are a few easy tips on how to improve the stability and security of your Virtual Private Server:

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