Challenge
Discovering system administration and security best practices by configuring a server from scratch, starting from a minimal installation, and hardening it according to a strict policy.
École 42 ParisStudent, École 42 project
Born2beroot, system administration of a Debian virtual machine
École 42 project, setting up and hardening a Debian VM: encrypted LVM partitioning, SSH, UFW firewall, sudo, password policy and a monitoring script (sysadmin skills).
École 42 Paris
Impact
- Debian VM installed and hardened according to a strict security policy
- Encrypted LVM partitioning, SSH, UFW, sudo and password policy
- Bash script monitoring the system state
Context
Born2beroot is a project from the sysadmin track of École 42 Paris, completed in 2021, as part of the school's own project-based learning approach.
What was done
Setting up a Debian VM: encrypted LVM partitioning, hardened SSH access, UFW firewall, permission management via sudo, a strict password policy, and a Bash script for system monitoring.
Stack
The technologies used on this mission.
- Debian
- Encrypted LVM
- SSH
- UFW
- sudo
- Bash
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