Entropy Reduction

Personal log of yet another digital native.

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Contents

New User Sudo SSH Security Housekeeping Package Query Yaourt Cleanup

New User

Create user and add a password for them:

useradd -m -g wheel dancingborg passwd dancingborg

Sudo

Install sudo package to allow new user to execute elevated commands:

pacman -S sudo

Use dedicated editing tool to edit sudoers file:

visudo

Remove comment prefix # from default wheel entry to allow wheel users to sudo:

• From: #%wheel ALL=(ALL) ALL
• To: %wheel ALL=(ALL) ALL

SSH Security

Disable root login via SSH:

vim /etc/ssh/sshd_config

Add: PermitRootLogin no

reboot

Login as user.

Housekeeping

Remove MOTD:

sudo rm /etc/motd

Enable Pacman colours:

vim /etc/pacman.conf

• From: #Color
• To: Color

Reference

Install:

• Base Developer Tools
• Yet Another Jason Library

• Wget

  pacman -S base-devel yajl wget

Package Query

Install Package Query by downloading and creating package manually:

• wget https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/snapshot/package-query.tar.gz
• tar xfz package-query.tar.gz
• cd package-query
• makepkg
• sudo pacman -U package-query*.pkg.tar.xz

Yaourt

Install Yaourt by downloading and creating package manually:

• wget https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/snapshot/yaourt.tar.gz
• tar xzf yaourt.tar.gz
• cd yaourt
• makepkg
• sudo pacman -U yaourt*.pkg.tar.xz

Cleanup

Remove leftover installation files:

• rm -r ~/package-query
• rm -r ~/yaourt
• rm -r *.tar.gz

[Reference][1] [1]: https://astrofloyd.wordpress.com/2015/01/17/installing-yaourt-on-arch-linux/)