Tag: user

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Howto MySQL: Create a user and grant permission to a database

7 years ago
Alistair Ross
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Here is something that as a system or database admin, you’ll do lots of – create a database, create a database user, and then assign the permission for that user…

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How To Set Up SSH Keys

8 years ago
Alistair Ross
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About SSH Keys SSH keys provide a more secure way of logging into a virtual private server with SSH than using a password alone. While a password can eventually be…

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Quick tip: Add a user to the sudoers group

8 years ago
Alistair Ross
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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,…

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How to mount a USB stick as a non-root user with write permission

9 years ago
Alistair Ross
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So you want to use a USB stick or a USB hard drive, and you don’t want to mount it as root every time? Why would you want to do…

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How to read and write to Windows NTFS drives as any user

10 years ago
Alistair Ross
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So you have a Windows hard drive using the NTFS partition type. The good news is that most Linux distributions these days can read and write to it automatically without…