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The Amazon Linux AMI is a Linux image provided by Amazon Web Services (AWS) for use on Amazon EC2. It is designed to provide a stable, secure, and high performance execution environment for applications running on Amazon EC2.
We all should be aware that security is very important for our servers. Having informed about the changes to server file system is always important, as unauthorized access could very well breach security. Here comes our saviour Open Source Tripwire, which is a free security and data integrity tool useful for monitoring and alerting on specific file change(s) on a range of systems.
Open Source Tripwire functions as a host-based intrusion detection system. It detects changes to file system objects and alerts the server administrator.
It is no surprise that production sites at times may work differently from dev / stage due to various factors. And in such circumstances, there is a need to login as real site user to be able to reproduce the issue. Of course it is not easy to fix a bug unless it is really reproduced by developer.
In one of my recent works, I found a simple trick using Drush to get access to real user account without distrubing his/her account credentials like login name, email, password, or similar.
I was a part of Learn Drupal on Global Drupal Training Day!, Drupal Chennai event to deliver a talk about installation and Drupal in general. The attendees were from different genre, but majority of them were students. After the presentations, Shyamala propounded to form teams and let the student participants to try a Drupal installation and come up with a site of their own taste and novelty.
