1. Spun up a new VM hosting Ubuntu server 22.04. Installation was straightforward. Updated/Upgraded all packages and installed Apache2.
Launched an SSH session via PuTTY to make sure it was working. Will also set up PKI access as best practice.
Creating SSH key pair.
Successfully logged in.
Installed the Network Manager package to grab the name of my NIC. Then ran sudo iftop -i ens18 to take a look at network traffic.
Also installed htop to be get a better look at resource utilization.
Updated the timezone on my server.
Switched to my Kali Linux VM to try an crack my own password via John the Ripper (stopped process after a few mins). Interesting to note the uptick in resource utilization as the program uses CPU cores to try and crack the hash.
Navigating to various important folders and practicing working with important commands such as find, cat, grep.
Installed Midnight Commander (mc) to experiment with a simple file system GUI. Created a new "Documents" folder in my home directory.
Taking a quick look at the apache2.conf file.
Using the grep command to take a look and the server logs and dumping the output into a new file.
Checking that the new file has been properly created
