Install pre-requisites sudo apt install build-essential libssl-dev libffi-dev software-properties-common libbz2-dev libncurses-dev libncursesw5-dev libgdbm-dev liblzma-dev libsqlite3-dev tk-dev libgdbm-compat-dev libreadline-dev Download the python version you want from https://www.python.org/downloads/source/ cd /opt sudo wget https://www.python.org/ftp/python/3.9.16/Python-3.9.16.tar.xz Extract the downloaded source sudo tar -xvf Python-3.9.16.tar.xz Read the info cd Python-3.9.16/ cat README.rst Compile and Install python ./configure make When running make […]
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Assuming you have logged in as root with a password Creating a non-root User adduser ubuntu usermod -aG sudo ubuntu Add your SSH key to the new User ssh-copy-id ubuntu@ ssh ubuntu@ Enabling Firewall sudo ufw app list sudo ufw status Disable root login and password based login sudo vim /etc/ssh/sshd_config Uncomment and set: PasswordAuthentication […]
I’ve found installing python from source on ubuntu just makes your life easier. Python depends on a few system binaries and linked libraries so you need to ensure they are present first. sudo apt install software-properties-common build-essential \ libreadline-gplv2-dev libncursesw5-dev libssl-dev libsqlite3-dev \ tk-dev libgdbm-dev libc6-dev libbz2-dev libncurses-dev libgdbm-dev \ libpcap-dev libexpat1-dev libffi-dev liblzma-dev libgdbm-compat-dev […]
Fail2ban is a tool that can automatically ban malicious bots trying to get into your server. Provided you set up filters and the ip address is logged you can use fail2ban with any application. fail2ban is built with python2.7 Create a filter, using a regular expression: In /etc/fail2ban/filter.d/my-custom-filter.conf: [Definition] failregex = ^www.example.com -.* “POST \/user\/register […]
Alright you’ve had it with Windows and their horrible, data thieving, privacy breaching ways. But you still want to be able to use it because of other reasons. Well you can dual boot – boot into the platform of your choosing with sperate drives, I will be showing you how to do this, This is […]