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,…
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…
Who needs Adobe Creative Suite? The Free Linux Alternatives!
The Ultimate Linux Creative Suite? If you are a creative type, Adobe Creative Suite, or its component parts, such as Illustrator, PhotoShop and Premiere have been for years known as…
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…
How to setup a KVM server the fast way
This is a very short quick setup on how to get KVM (The Linux Kernel Virtual Machine hypervisor) server up and running. Why KVM? KVM is a hypervisor, just like…