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Less is More, or is it Most?

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The standard pager in Solaris is more, the standard pager in Linux is less, so is less more or most

SSH Cheat Sheet

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This post provides me with a reminder of the syntax for the most useful SSH features I use whist auditing systems.

2 Security tweaks to enhance Webmin

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Out of the box webmin works great, with these two tweaks we can enhance the security of this web-based sysadmin tool.

How to reset a lost Webmin password

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If you've lost your admin password to access webmin, then use the 'changepass.pl' utility to simply reset your webmin password.

first login password change in WEBMIN fails

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When creating webmin users and setting the flag change password after first login, 80% of the systems are successful

Cluster Cheat Sheet

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This cheat sheet contains common commands and resources for Sun Cluster, Veritas VCS, IBM HACMP, Redhat-HA and HP ServiceGuard cluster environments.

How to find System Serial number from command line

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Ever needed to obtain the serial number of a system without physically inspecting the hardware. Here's some command-line examples for various systems.

Giving 'scp' go faster stripes

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Transferring files with scp isn't the quickest option, but if it's the only one there's a simple way to make it go a little quicker.