December 2018
Beginner
248 pages
5h 54m
English
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12USING AND ABUSING SERVICES
In Linux terminology, a service is an application that runs in the background waiting for you to use it. Your Linux system has dozens of services preinstalled. Of these, the most well known is the ubiquitous Apache Web Server, which is used for creating, managing, and deploying web servers, but there are so many more. For the purposes of this chapter on services, I have selected just four that are of particular importance to the hacker: Apache Web Server, OpenSSH, MySQL/MariaDB, and PostgreSQL.
In this chapter, you’ll learn how to set up a web server with Apache, physically spy with OpenSSH, access data with MySQL/MariaDB, ...