Check out Tecmint’s great article on SSHFS, a way that you can securely see the filesystem of a remote computer, using the SSH protocol. It works kind of like NFS,…
Category: SysAdmin
Quick tip: Add a user to the sudoers group
Situation: A new user on your server needs to have admin, or ‘root’ user access. Rather than enabling the root account, or giving out the password details to your elevated account,…
Disable logging in with the root account
Say you got a new server set up on a VPS system, such as DigitalOcean. These servers often are set up with a root account and not a non-privileged account…
How to get to a service/server which is on an inaccessible network (using SSH tunnels)
In the latest of our ‘just the examples’, imagine you are in a scenario where you want to ssh to a server (or even browse a web page etc) on a…
80 Linux Monitoring Tools for SysAdmins
Have a look at this excellent list of tools for monitoring your Linux servers! We could add the same list, but it would just be downright thievery, it’s the most…
View your log files in colour and in an easy to read format
This is a wonderful tutorial from the guys over at lintut.com to show how to navigate your way through log files easily. Log files are notoriously difficult to read because…