I’ve found out that securing Jolicloud is very much the same as securing Ubuntu. How? Hit the keys Alt – F1 on your keyboard, and you’ll get to see a terminal. In a terminal, do a command of [sudo -i], and type in your user password to become root. Use the secure tips from my earlier posts on how to secure Ubuntu and so on from here and here. You can install other applications that Jolicloud hides from you by using the command of [aptitude install whatever-package-you-want-or-know-of]. Make sure you install a firewall in Jolicloud to protect you from remote attacks by using the command of [aptitude install firestarter]. Paranoid? You can install ClamAV to scan files for viruses in case you want to transfer some files from Jolicloud to Windows systems by using the command of [aptitude install clamav].
This was actually helpful. I didn’t know Jolicloud was a rebuild of Ubuntu distribution. Should always start by checking for updates!
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
Yes you should always check for update on all systems, regardless which operating system you use. Nonetheless, I don’t know how different Jolicloud is now since I have not followed it for a long time already. The post you read on my experimentation with Jolicloud was dated way back. Nonetheless, if it is still Linux and based on Ubuntu, then using sudo apt-get update and sudo apt-get upgrade would work. Oh, I think sudo apt-get dist-upgrade is to upgrade to a new version of Jolicloud. Sudo apt-get upgrade would be upgrading the installed packages/software on Jolicloud.
Thanks for sharing this tip. I’m just new to Ubuntu and reading this definitely adds to my knowledge using this OS.