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Forcing RHEL to prompt for password in Single User mode

11 Jan 2016 1 minute read 2743 visits.

By default, RHEL doesn't prompt for a password and we are given root shell directly, as usually Single User mode can be used to reset root password.

12 Dec 2015 1 minute read 2758 visits.

During a test build of Ubuntu 15.10 I suddenly received the following error when refreshing the packages from the repository.

5 Nov 2015 2 minute read 408 visits.

Access control lists (ACLs) allow you to assign permissions to many different users and groups on individual files or directories.

21 Oct 2015 2 minute read 3802 visits.

This document describes how to use a Linux computer to extract the BaseSystem.dmg image file from an Mac OS X (10.7+) installation DVD

4 Nov 2015 1 minute read 4046 visits.

A short article on how to mount a DFS (distributed file system) on an Oracle Linux 5.11 system.

30 Sep 2015 1 minute read 1320 visits.

A short article providing a comparision between the service and systemctl utilities, and between the chkconfig and systemctl utilities

11 Aug 2015 2 minute read 996 visits.

Unlike Upstart in Oracle Linux 6, the systemd daemon now replaces Upstart in managing system run levels and services.

18 Feb 2016 1 minute read 992 visits.

A Comparison of Popular Linux Package Managers

17 May 2015 2 minute read 1074 visits.

This article provides a quick reference guide for the open SuSE operating system

14 Jan 2015 1 minute read 449 visits.

This article provides the simple steps needed to uninstall the VMware workstation from a Linux host. You must run the command from a Linux server.