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Compliance + Protection: Strengthen your cybersecurity defenses with TuxCare’s Security Hardening – or gain painless FIPS 140-3 compliance with Extended Security Updates.
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Extended Security Updates from TuxCare
powered by Enterprise Support for AlmaLinux
Simplify your security compliance with a complete set of FIPS 140-3 validated AlmaLinux cryptographic packages required for regulated workloads to ensure their enduring security with FIPS-compliant patches.
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Installing Extended
Security Updates
Requirements
- AlmaLinux 9.2 operating system
- x86_64 or aarch64 architecture
- Extended Security Updates license key
- Internet access
Installation Instructions
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tuxctl is the setup tool for TuxCare’s Enterprise Support for AlmaLinux, which will configure your system to receive patches from the TuxCare repositories. To install tuxctl you need to install the tuxcare-release package first. This package contains the TuxCare repo definitions, TuxCare GPG key and the tuxctl setup tool. Run the following as root:
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# dnf -y install https://repo.tuxcare.com/tuxcare/tuxcare-release-latest-9.2.noarch.rpm
The second step is to activate your license on the system. You should run the tuxctl tool as root with your ESU license key provided as a command line argument like so:
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# tuxctl --license-key ESU-XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
This tool will do the following:
- Check your OS and architecture
- Check your license key for validity and purchased extensions
- Check if your system is already registered
- Register to CloudLinux Network
- Obtain a token to access the restricted TuxCare repos
- Enable the TuxCare ESU repo
- Switch the default AlmaLinux repos to use repo.tuxcare.com
- Import the TuxCare GPG key
After installation you’ll see the following message:
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TuxCare installed successfullyThis means your system is registered and ready to receive updates from TuxCare.
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About TuxCare’s Extended
Security Updates
Designed for organizations seeking to ensure long-term security and compliance of their FIPS-validated deployments – also ideal for those prioritizing stable and secure environments without having to upgrade to a new OS version frequently.
- Long-term High and Critical security updates (CVSSv3 and CISA KEV) for AlmaLinux 9.2, 9.6, and 9.10 (FIPS-certified releases)
- Full suite of five FIPS-validated modules (kernel, OpenSSL, libcrypt, nss, and gnutls)
- FIPS-compliant security patches that do not change the validated cryptography to ensure FIPS 140-3 continuity
- Re-certification for cryptographic CVEs (much faster than the general FIPS 140-3 certification process)
