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Once Fedora has installed, log in as root, and configure and turn up the network interface Install the fastest mirror plugin for yum, gcc, flex, make, byacc, and wget, mlocate, telnet, bison, xinetd, mailx, jwhois, and man, then yum install yum-plugin-fastestmirror -y yum install gcc flex make byacc wget mlocate telnet bison xinetd mailx jwhois man -y uncomment the “pas*word” line and change the pas*word (default is foo, this is a cleartext value) then save and close the file, and run the following command # This is for quick on or off of the service disable        = no # External services must fill out the following user        = root #    cps        = 50 10 #    instances    = UNLIMITED #    pas*env        = #    nice        = 0 #    umask        = 022 #    groups        = yes # Banner options. (Banners aren't normally used) #    banner        = Being able to SSH in as root is a security hole that one just shouldn’t risk, however when you first setup a box, it’s an option that’s enabled by default. To disable it, do the following. Changing pas*word for user ppillera. New pas*word: blah1234 Retype new pas*word: blah1234 pas*wd: all authentication tokens updated successfully. now that we’ve got a new user to SSH in as, we can disable root ssh. you’ll notice that you have to delete the “#” at the begening, and change the “yes” to “no”. then all you have to do is restart the sshd service and you’re good to go Where eth0 is the interface on which you want to configure the IP. Change “onboot” and add the two following lines so it looks like this Then edit the ifcfg-xx*x file for your particular network card: Now that our network is setup, we should really configure the “network” service to automatically start up when we want it to. if network isn’t marked as “on” for levels 3 and 5, then do the following