Checking which Debian/Ubuntu version maps to each other can be a pain specially when you are following a tutorials on how to setup something of fix a bug. As not all users are going to know the differences between the versions I have posted a list which should help identify if you are looking at the...

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Preparation

Upgrade time can be a daunting time specially if you are new or not that confident in performing upgrades, I will be covering the basics of upgrading which will allow you to perform an upgrade of your Debian 10 to a Debian 11 system.

The first thing that you want to do before making...

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Preperation

Upgrade time can be a daunting time specially if you are new or not that confident in performing upgrades, I will be covering the basics of upgrading which will allow you to perform an upgrade of your Debian 9 system to a Debian 10 system.

The system that I last performed the upgrade...

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Install XRDP on Debian 10

apt install xrdp
apt install xserver-xorg-core
apt install xorgxrdp
adduser xrdp ssl-cert  

Update configuration file

vi /etc/polkit-1/localauthority.conf.d/02-allow-colord.conf

polkit.addRule(function(action, subject) {
if ((action.id == "org.freedesktop.color-mana...

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Update the SSH connection ciphers

The ciphers for ssh are configured in the /etc/ssh/sshd_config file so you will need to disable the deprecated ciphers by modifying lines in the sshd_config file.

First off make a backup of the existing config file.

cp /etc/ssh/sshd_config{,_bak}

Checking

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