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How to install Redis for WordPress on FreeBSD

November 2, 2024 By Albert Valbuena

How to install Apache in FreeBSD with ports

April 26, 2017 By Albert Valbuena

Or better said, how to install Apache the hard way. As mentioned before and many other times FreeBSD has two ways to install software. The easy one which is provided by the pkgng tool. And the not so easy one, ports. With ports you compile the programs and you can set the options the way […]

How to install Docker on Ubuntu 18.04

February 25, 2019 By Albert Valbuena

Operating System level virtualization is hitting hard now, as much as VM’s did just a few years ago. Docker is the popular framework for this matter, the new kid on the block so to speak. This is the hot spot now and if anyone wants to appear knowledgeable about system administration knowing this technology is […]

The Original Sin

December 15, 2019 By Albert Valbuena

Disclaimer: What you are about to read may contain inaccuracies. Feel free to discuss them somewhere else. This is also my opinion and as such it may change through time, maybe tomorrow, next month, next year, next decade or never. I do also make very few reviews (if any) of what I write here so […]

How to test pfSense on VirtualBox running on FreeBSD

May 1, 2019 By Albert Valbuena

There are other guides on how to do this on Windows, Mac, but not on FreeBSD, so here goes a how to pfSense on Virtualbox running on FreeBSD. Before going to it, let’s address the first question, which is what is pfSense. pfSense is a FreeBSD based distribution made for networking purposes. The company behind […]

How to install software in FreeBSD with pkgng

April 25, 2017 By Albert Valbuena

The pkgng is the package management system in FreeBSD. It is used to install applications, and specific modules, libraries, etc. Nowadays you can select in between more than 25.000 thousand. Yes, twenty five thousand. The syntax to use is very intuitive and simple. As you may be already aware software comes in two forms. Source […]

ARP spoofing attacks

April 15, 2020 By Albert Valbuena

ARP spoofing attacks are quite harming and they can easily constitute a man-in-the-middle (MITM) attack. They consist on the attacker sending ARP packets into the network the victim is located, typically redirecting traffic to the attacker’s machine. Once this is achieved the attacker can sniff all the traffic sent by the victim’s device and obtain […]

Nessus vulnerability scanner

May 4, 2020 By Albert Valbuena

Nessus is a very well known vulnerability scanner used by many large and small companies to assess their systems and correct the issues found in them. Cybersecurity teams and specially auditors, make heavy use of tools like this in order to follow up the state of infrastructure and environments. Having a tool like this saves […]

How to use Cloudflare’s Argo Tunnel service to publish a website on FreeBSD 12/13

December 12, 2022 By Albert Valbuena

What is the Cloudflare Argo Tunnel service? In short, a tunneled connection between a host and Cloudflare’s network. A longer depiction can be read in a blog entry of theirs, but I would put it as a secure way to connect the services you want to publish using their network as a shield. An example […]

Symbolic and Hard Links in UNIX and Linux

July 16, 2023 By Albert Valbuena

Symbolic and Hard Links are useful ways to reference to information on a disk, both found in UNIX and Linux systems. While they seem similar in the surface they are quite different in how they work and it what can be achieved when using them. If you find the articles in Adminbyaccident.com useful to you, […]

How to mitigate Spectre and Meltdown on a Lenovo T430s laptop with Ubuntu

September 1, 2018 By Albert Valbuena

As recently announced in a previous article I wanted to write a couple of guides on how to mitigate Spectre and Meltdown vulnerabilities in GNU/Linux and UNIX environments. It is always a good and I hope a standard practice to have your systems patched and if they aren’t for whatever the reason (that legacy thing […]

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