Initial Server Setup with CentOS/RHEL 8 | Linux Today

Initial Server Setup with CentOS/RHEL 8

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Sep 26, 2019

In this article, we will walk you through the first basic steps that you need to apply after installing a minimal CentOS/RHEL 8 server with no graphical environment in order to retrieve the information about the installed system, the hardware on top of which the server is running and configure other specific system tasks, such as system update, networking, root privileges, configure ssh, manage services, and others.

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