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Describe DebianChecklist here. Chris Lamb has a good [[http://www.chris-lamb.co.uk/2009/06/03/checklist-configuring-debian-system/|Debian installation checklist]], from which I stole most of this list.
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# Configure sudo, adding my user to the sudo group so I don't get password prompts
aptitude install sudo
adduser xjjk sudo
echo '%sudo ALL=NOPASSWD: ALL' > /etc/sudoers.d/No-Passwords-for-sudo-Group
chmod 0440 /etc/sudoers.d/No-Passwords-for-sudo-Group

# Configure locales to prevent harassment about it later
aptitude install locales
dpkg-reconfigure -plow locales
# …or install all locales so they don't need to be configured/reinstalled
aptitude install locales-all

# Disable installation of recommended packages
echo 'APT::Install-Recommends "false";' > /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/90recommends
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# Prevent PAM from allowing easily-crackable passwords
apt-get install libpam-cracklib

# Install essential utilities
sudo aptitude install
openssh-server \
atool lzma rzip xz-utils \
htop dstat iotop \
manpages manpages-dev \
strace tcpdump lsof \
moreutils \
dnsutils \
chrony \
molly-guard

# HDD Temperature/SMART monitoring utilities
aptitude install hddtemp smartmontools
sed -i 's/^#start_smartd=yes/start_smartd=yes/' /etc/default/smartmontools
/etc/init.d/smartmontools start

Chris Lamb has a good Debian installation checklist, from which I stole most of this list.

   1 # Configure sudo, adding my user to the sudo group so I don't get password prompts
   2 aptitude install sudo
   3 adduser xjjk sudo
   4 echo '%sudo ALL=NOPASSWD: ALL' > /etc/sudoers.d/No-Passwords-for-sudo-Group
   5 chmod 0440 /etc/sudoers.d/No-Passwords-for-sudo-Group
   6 
   7 # Configure locales to prevent harassment about it later
   8 aptitude install locales
   9 dpkg-reconfigure -plow locales
  10 # …or install all locales so they don't need to be configured/reinstalled
  11 aptitude install locales-all
  12 
  13 # Disable installation of recommended packages
  14 echo 'APT::Install-Recommends "false";' > /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/90recommends
  15 
  16 # Enable log compression with date postfix'd extension
  17 cat /etc/logrotate.conf | sed "s/#compress/compress/" > /etc/logrotate.conf.tmp
  18 echo "dateext" >> /etc/logrotate.conf.tmp
  19 mv /etc/logrotate.conf.tmp /etc/logrotate.conf
  20 
  21 # Prevent PAM from allowing easily-crackable passwords
  22 apt-get install libpam-cracklib
  23 
  24 # Install essential utilities
  25 sudo aptitude install
  26 openssh-server \
  27 atool lzma rzip xz-utils \
  28 htop dstat iotop \
  29 manpages manpages-dev \
  30 strace tcpdump lsof \
  31 moreutils \
  32 dnsutils \
  33 chrony \
  34 molly-guard
  35 
  36 # HDD Temperature/SMART monitoring utilities
  37 aptitude install hddtemp smartmontools
  38 sed -i 's/^#start_smartd=yes/start_smartd=yes/' /etc/default/smartmontools
  39 /etc/init.d/smartmontools start

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