CentOS 7 Server Setup

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SETUP PROCESS:

INITIAL USER:

adduser myuser
passwd myuser
gpasswd -a myuser wheel
su - myuser
mkdir .ssh
chmod 700 .ssh
vi .ssh/authorized_keys
chmod 600 .ssh/authorized_keys

SSH

Made the following modifications to /etc/ssh/sshd_config:

Port 2222
PermitRootLogin no
MaxAuthTries 6
MaxSe...

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Updating CentOS 7 MariaDB to support utf8mb4_unicode_520_ci

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While attempting to import an .sql file I experienced the following error Unknown collation: 'utf8mb4_unicode_520_ci'. It turns out the CentOS 7 repo only offers MariaDB version 5.5, meanwhile www.mariadb.org currently offers version 10.1 and also states that utf8mb4_unicode_520_ci is a support...

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