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March 9, 2019

How To Install Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP (LAMP) stack on Ubuntu 16.04

Introduction A “LAMP” stack is a group of open source software that is typically installed together to enable a server to host dynamic websites and web apps. This term is actually an acronym which represents the Linux operating system, with the Apache web server. The site data is stored in a MySQL database, and dynamic content is processed …

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How to Install and Configure SimpleSAMLphp for SAML Authentication on Ubuntu 16.04

Introduction SimpleSAMPLphp is an open-source PHP authentication application that provides support for SAML 2.0 as a Service Provider (SP) or Identity Provider (IdP). SAML (Security Assertion Markup Language) is a secure XML-based communication mechanism for exchanging authentication and authorization data between organizations and applications. It’s often used to implement Web SSO (Single Sign On). This eliminates the need to …

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How To Edit the Sudoers File on Ubuntu and CentOS

Introduction Privilege separation is one of the fundamental security paradigms implemented in Linux and Unix-like operating systems. Regular users operate with limited privileges in order to reduce the scope of their influence to their own environment, and not the wider operating system. A special user, called root, has “super-user” privileges. This is an administrative account without …

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