2nd set of taks

Linux Servers

Ricardo Cabete

1. Configure SSH daemon so that only regular user (not root) can make a remote login. You can get SSH configuration information from command line with command man sshd_config. $ apt-get install ssh $ nano /etc/ssh/sshd_config [change line 'PermitRootLogin' to no] 2. Restart SSHD and test your new configurations. Take ssh connection to your server and login as regular user. Try also login as root -user. $ service ssh restart [Tests can be made with Putty or any other client] 3. Give your server some good name (for example nagios.lns-servers.com) and add the name into Optima. $ hostname debian.local 4. Log all kernel messages to /var/log/kernel file (/etc/syslog.conf). $ nano /etc/rsyslog.conf [changed line 'kern.*' to -/var/log/kernel] 5. Reload syslog service and check that /var/log/kernel file exists! $ service rsyslog restart $ cat /var/log/kernel 6. Change settings for the server to keep 52 weeks worth of backlogs (/etc/logrotate.conf). $ nano /etc/logrotate.conf [change line 'rotate 4' to 'rotate 52']