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dfedorov-ciena / ubuntu-hardening.md
Created May 6, 2019 16:18 — forked from lokhman/ubuntu-hardening.md
List of things for hardening Ubuntu

System Updates

http://bookofzeus.com/harden-ubuntu/initial-setup/system-updates/

Keeping the system updated is vital before starting anything on your system. This will prevent people to use known vulnerabilities to enter in your system.

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo apt-get autoremove
sudo apt-get autoclean
@adrienbrault
adrienbrault / purge.sh
Created September 24, 2012 10:02
Script to reduce VM size before packaging for vagrant
#!/bin/sh
# Credits to:
# - http://vstone.eu/reducing-vagrant-box-size/
# - https://github.com/mitchellh/vagrant/issues/343
aptitude -y purge ri
aptitude -y purge installation-report landscape-common wireless-tools wpasupplicant ubuntu-serverguide
aptitude -y purge python-dbus libnl1 python-smartpm python-twisted-core libiw30
aptitude -y purge python-twisted-bin libdbus-glib-1-2 python-pexpect python-pycurl python-serial python-gobject python-pam python-openssl libffi5