Category Archives: Miscellaneous

Installation and configuration of OpenVPN server on Centos 6.8

This blog will help you with the installation and configuration of OpenVPN server on centos 6.8 on DigitalOcean OpenVPN server version : 2.3.14 CentOS Version : CentOS 6.8 1. Login to server and switch as root user $ sudo su – or $ su – 2. Install EPEL repository # rpm -Uivh http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/x86_64/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm 3. Update and install openvpn-server related packages… Read More »

Install Skype 4.2 on ubuntu

Skype allows people to communicate with each other by text messaging , voice and video calling over internet. It also provides an option to call to phone numbers if you have credits .Please click here to know more about skype . This blog  helps you to install Skype 4.2 on ubuntu based systems (32 bit/ 64bit).… Read More »

How to change default SSH port on Ubuntu server

The default port of SSH is 22.  To secure SSH more we need to change the port  . This blog helps you how to change default SSH port  on Ubuntu servers. 1. Switch as root user $sudo su – [sudo] password for user: 2. Open ssh configuration file #vim /etc/ssh/sshd_config 3. Change the line (Here… Read More »