Harden Your Drupal Websites
A great tutorial that I found a few weeks ago that describes how to harden your Apache and Drupal configurations, and contains some great security-related points.
Linux
How to use Authorized Keys to Create a Passwordless SSH Connection
Rather than have to search through Google whenever I need to find the original article, I thought that I'd post it here for my own reference.
local$ ssh-keygen -t dsa
local$ scp ~/.ssh/id_dsa.pub remote:~/
local$ ssh username@remote
remote$ cat ~/id_dsa.pub >> ~/.ssh/authorized_keys
remote$ chmod 644 ~/.ssh/authorized_keysHow to Install and Configure Subversion (SVN) Server on Ubuntu
Recently, I needed to set up a Subversion (SVN) server on a Ubuntu Linux server. This post is going to outline the steps taken, and the commands used, to install and configure the service.
Note: As I was using Ubuntu, I was using the 'apt-get' command to download and install the software packages. If you're using a different distribution of Linux, then this command may be different. I'm also assuming that Apache is already installed.
Firstly, I'm going to ensure that all of my installed packages are up to date, and install any available updates.
