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This post describes how to allow users in the wheel group to use the sudo command without being prompted for the root password Edit /etc/sudoers Uncomment the line %WHEEL ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL Add a user to the wheel group # gpasswd -a username wheel This does also work on Fedora and other Redhat based distributions.
man – an interface to the on-line reference manuals. man is the system’s manual pager. Each page argument given to man is normally the name of a program, utility or function. The manual page associated with each of these arguments is then found and displayed. A section, if provided, will direct man to look only […]
By default after a kernel panic Linux just sits there and waits for a user to hit the restart button. That can be a bad thing if it’s a remote server. Checking if enabled To check if its enabled try this: # cat /proc/sys/kernel/panic 0 The returned 0 is the time the kernel will wait […]
This post describes how you can setup secure web browsing using Firefox3 and by setting up a SSH tunnel from your PC/host to a remote PC/host. Your PC will then act as a local SOCKS proxy and all applications that supports SOCKS5 interface to this port. This is a handy solution if you are on […]