Keeping separate history files for users who su to root
If you're like me and work for a company who has many linux admins all logging into servers and then su'ing to root, you may find this tip beneficial. It is simply 3 lines that you add to root's...
View ArticleThe Root of it All: The meanings of the folders in the / directory
Most linux users know about the root directory, but many of the folders contained in / are a mystery as to their purpose. I wanted to write about this in one of my switching to linux articles, but it...
View ArticleUnConfusing The Issue Of Disabling Root On Linux or Unix
A look at various ways to secure the root account against system users and some in-use methods that seem to cause more harm than good.
View Articlesudo !!
How many times did you type a command and forgot to type sudo first ? What do you want to say when that happens ? No, not that…you might want to say : sudo !!
View ArticleHilarious Root Cause Analyses
Hopefully I'm not the only person in the IT world who finds this RCA spot-on ;)
View ArticleUse a Different Color for the Root Shell Prompt
Reader Chris writes in with an excellent tip that changes the prompt to red when using the root account from the terminal—as a reminder to be more careful.
View ArticleRunning Complex Commands with sudo
If you use sudo to run commands as root, you've probably run into “permission denied” problems when only part of a pipeline or part of a command is running with root permissions.
View ArticleHow To Enable Root (Super) User in Ubuntu
If you are new to Ubuntu and have been using other distros like Fedora or openSUSE before, then you may find it frustrating that when you issue the "su" command it will result to authentication...
View ArticleHow to create Debian packages with alternative compression methods
While gzip is the standard Unix tool when it comes to compression, there are other tools available and some of them are performing better than gzip in terms of compression ratio.
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