Spyware is a “malware” or malicious program that is placed on your PC without your knowledge. This can transpire while you visit websites offering free of charge downloads of games, when you download videos or music, or any share files, such as when you download that comic email from your friend. Spyware programs are copied into your computer as soon as you download a file. Spyware is contaminating millions of computers every few minutes.
In this guide I will show you how to install and configure Restricted SSH (rssh) using the default port 22, create a chrooted jail for your users and how to properly secure it all afterwards.
This method is tried and tested as I originally wrote this for my own benefit when building servers at work.
There are 5 steps:
Confirmed compatable with default installations of CentOS 5.2 and Redhat 5.2
During this guide the CentOS/Redhat default webroot of /var/www/html will be used.
Let’s get started!
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Retrospect is a popular backup solution used by many large organizations, similar in functionality to Semantec Backup Exec.
The main application is designed for Windows Server operating systems and includes clients for Windows, Linux, Mac OS, Solaris and Netware.
These instructions are written for CentOS 5 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (not tested on Fedora)
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