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Handy Commands

• For commands are great eg for d in `ls`; do sudo cp .htaccess $d/.htaccess; done
• Adding a date to a file name eg ls > files-`date +%Y%m%d-%H%M%S`.txt
• Running several commands in one sudo eg sudo sh -c ‘/usr/local/src/backup.sh > /var/log/backup.log’
• lsusb list usb devices & show vendor info

Great Guides

• Linux administrators guide
• Rookie setup stuff at slice host
• Initial setup for ubuntu hardy

Protecting Wordpress

• My notes http://inetd.info/2009/04/05/adding-a-little-protection-to-wp-configphp/
• Official doco http://codex.wordpress.org/Hardening_WordPress

Shell User Setup

1. Add the user, adduser newuser
2. Create the web dir, mkdir /var/www/newuserdomain
3. Grant the user rights on the domain, chown -R newuser:newuser /var/www/newuserdomain
   
4. Copy the site template, cp /etc/apache2/sites-available/inetd.info /etc/apache2/sites-available/newdomain
5. Edit the new file changing the domain name with vi, :%s/inetd.info/newdomain/g
6. Create the log file directory, mkdir /var/www/newdomain/log/
7. Link the available to file to enabled, ln -s /etc/apache2/sites-available/newdomain /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/nnn-newdomain
8. Reload apache config, /etc/init.d/apache2 reload
9. Let the user login via ssh, vi /etc/ssh/sshd_config
10. Reload sshd, /etc/init.d/ssh reload