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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...

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The 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...

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UnConfusing 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.

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sudo !!

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 !!

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Hilarious Root Cause Analyses

Hopefully I'm not the only person in the IT world who finds this RCA spot-on ;)

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Use 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.

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Running 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.

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How 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...

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How 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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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 Article

The 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 Article

UnConfusing 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 Article

sudo !!

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 Article


Hilarious Root Cause Analyses

Hopefully I'm not the only person in the IT world who finds this RCA spot-on ;)

View Article

Use 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 Article


Running 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 Article

How 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...

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How 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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