Tag Archives: SysAdmin

Change Default FTP Port For VSFTP

CentOS 6, VSFTP In a bid to secure our server for a production environment, we need to secure FTP as a vital step. FTP is one of the least secure and most exploited standard protocols on production servers today. Many hosting providers now take additional steps to secure FTP for this very reason. I’m using […]

Pre-Shared Keys For SSH Login Without A Password

CentOS 6, Mac OS X This article is an excerpt taken from Secure SSH on CentOS 6 And RHEL. If you’ve never used public and private keys before, you will LOVE this. A pre-shared key setup allows you to login to the server (via SSH) without the need for a password and (optionally) only allows […]