Linux

My last post was about adding timestamp to terminal in Linux. But isn’t it better to simply add timestamp to history command? This enables you to open your terminal anytime, run history command and find out when you ran which command, all without keeping terminal or putty windows open indefinitely. …

Did you ever tried to guess your friends password? Did you ever tried to login to your partners password protected computer? Sounds silly and childish but many are guilty of it. Most cases it’s no big deal but I am sure all of us would like to know who tried …

I came across an issue few weeks back at work when I did some troubleshooting and ran some commands. When I was documenting it, I just couldn’t remember the exact time I started troubleshooting and issued those commands; I mean I even had putty logs saved for 9 hours of …

The sudo command offers a mechanism for providing trusted users with administrative access to a system without sharing the password of the root user. When users given access via this mechanism precede an administrative command with sudo they are prompted to enter their own password. Once authenticated, and assuming the …

I got quite a few servers where I login via SSH. As a Linux user, I feel tired typing more than few things at a time (not my fault!), so I decided to create SSH shortcuts and save it to my desktop. From then, all I needed to do is …