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Mastering Linux Security and Hardening - Second Edition
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Mastering Linux Security and Hardening - Second Edition

by Donald A. Tevault
February 2020
Intermediate to advanced
666 pages
15h 45m
English
Packt Publishing
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Creating a stunnel connection on Ubuntu – client side

Using this procedure on an Ubuntu client will allow it to send its files to either a CentOS or an Ubuntu log server:

  1. Install stunnel:
sudo apt install stunnel
  1. In the /etc/stunnel directory, create the stunnel.conf file with the following contents:
client=yesfips=no[speak to server]accept = 127.0.0.1:6514connect=192.168.0.161:30000
Note that even though we can't use FIPS mode on the Ubuntu clients, we can still have them send log files to a CentOS log server that is configured to use FIPS mode. (So, yes, we can mix and match.)
  1. Start the stunnel daemon:
sudo /etc/init.d/stunnel4 start
  1. To make it automatically start when you reboot the system, edit the /etc/default/stunnel4 file. ...
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ISBN: 9781838981778