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

December 6, 2017 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 to operate on that database. […]

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How To Set Up SSH Keys

November 23, 2016 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 cracked with a brute force […]

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Quick tip: Add a user to the sudoers group

August 7, 2016October 12, 2016 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, add the new user to […]

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

April 20, 2016July 7, 2018 Alistair Ross

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 this? It’s a hassle to […]

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

January 12, 2015January 3, 2016 Alistair Ross

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 as much as a config […]

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