I’m just going through PCI Compliance for a company that I work for. The security scan picked an apparent vulnerability in the open-ssh server. The vulnerability had been patched in Ubuntu 14.04 and so this is a false positive. I thought that I post put about it because I found lots of posts where people … Read more
I need to install HP support package on Ubuntu Trust / 14.04. Add the following line to: Add the following line: Update the apt-get cache: You can see the list of packaging in this repository by using this command: Hope this helps someone.
I was trying to sftp some files using Python Paramiko on Ubuntu 14.04 and got the following error: “paramiko.SSHException: Incompatible ssh peer (no acceptable kex algorithm)”. It turns out that there is an incompatibility issue with OpenSSH 6.7 and Paramiko with a version less than 1.15.1. At the time of writing (November 2014) Ubuntu 14.04 … Read more
Ubuntu 14.04 comes with both MySQL 5.5 and MySQL 5.6 and by default uses MySQL 5.5. However, you can upgrade to MySQL 5.6 by doing the following steps: Step 1 – Take a backup! Step 2 – Remove the old MySQL I recommend using ‘apt-get purge’ rather than ‘apt-get remove’ to uninstall the old MySQL … Read more
I have just upgraded from Ubuntu 12.04 to Ubuntu 14.04 on our Bacula backup server. Everything is backing up okay however it’s failing to delete the catalogue backup job after it has run. The error message is: It turns out that Ubuntu 14.04 updated the backup script /etc/bacula/scripts/delete_catalog_backup but didn’t make is excutable. I could … Read more
I just upgraded from Ubuntu 13.10 to Ubuntu 14.04. However, after I had entered the username and password the computer froze. Unity just appears to hang. I fixed this by reinstalling Unity. Note – this problem might have be caused by the upgrade process. I’m not sure it was related to this error message: I … Read more