Well now that you have installed a basic server install of CentOS we are going to setup the environment we need in order to use our server. What you haven’t installed CentOS 5 yet? You might want to check out part one of this then. For those of you who have already installed it lets move on.
This section covers the configuration of the firewall, ssh, and creating user accounts. The final part will cover the install of MySQL, PHP, and Pure-ftp.
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Setting up the ssh client for using public key authentication is pretty easy. But I remember before I knew how to do it I had to look it up all the time whenever I wanted to setup a machine. Now it’s become second nature so I am going to show you how it’s done.
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Here is my configuration file for OpenSSH server. I have configured it to use public key authentication, and have only left the password authentication on so that people can test it before they turn it off.
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I mostly work with Ubuntu because I like it. You might say that I’m not a real Linux guy because of this fact and I’m okay with that, you don’t know me. But because of some work requirements I am having to build up CentOS environments. So I figured I would document the build for my own sanity. This way when I have to build a similar one I have some instructions on what I did.
This is good news for me, and good news for you if you want to be like me and build servers. This server is going to be a Pure-ftp server install. So I’m going to have it setup for everything I need to have a working FTP server
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