open ssl upgrade from ssl 2 -> ssl 3

I inherited a number of web servers that had been installed and configured by different contractors and am now in the process of evaluating what needs to happen to bring them all up to snuff as well as figuring out ways to streamline regular updates. Some of those web servers are still on Red 7.3 (!), the last free open source version of Red Hat. They’re quite old in server years. Additionally I have a few other servers I set up a year ago that are more up-to-date running Ubuntu 8 LTS, but the Apache version is 2.2.11 and 2.2.8. Our security scanning service notifies me regularly that SSL v 2 must be upgraded to SSL v3, which requires an upgrade to Apache 2.2.13 Continue reading

recover mysql root password

You can recover MySQL database server password with following five steps.

Step # 1: Stop the MySQL server process.

Step # 2: Start the MySQL (mysqld) server/daemon process with the –skip-grant-tables option so that it will not prompt for password

Step # 3: Connect to mysql server as the root user

Step # 4: Setup new root password

Step # 5: Exit and restart MySQL server Continue reading