Linux

Use an SSL/TLS Certificate with ESET Security Management Center Appliance

ESET Security Management Center (ESMC) is the replacement for the ESET Remote Administrator (ERA) Server. You can install ESMC as a “virtual appliance” which will run on hosts such as VMWare or Linux/KVM/QEMU. Under the hood, this appliance is a CentOS 7 server running the Apache Tomcat web server. ESMC is implemented as a Java […]

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Nginx default user changed in RedHat/CentOS package nginx-1.16.1-1.el7

The latest Nginx rpm (nginx-1.16.1-1.el7) from EPEL for CentOS/Redhat is a fairly major update, from version 1.12 to 1.16, and includes some very important fixes to address multiple CVEs. There is another small but critical change in the latest RPM that isn’t mentioned in the bug report. RedHat had configured nginx to run as user “apache”

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Updating to WordPress 5 on a Linux Host: Requesting FTP Credentials

WordPress 5 didn’t install automatically on sites hosted on my CentOS 7 WordPress hosting server. That’s by design, because I’m selfish and I’d rather wait for a few bug-fix releases before making a major upgrade. When I chose to upgrade manually on a test site, WordPress asked for my FTP credentials: If you’re hosting WordPress

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