Category: Administration How-To

Disable CTRL-ALT-DEL from rebooting a Linux machine
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Disable CTRL-ALT-DEL from rebooting a Linux machine

In normal hardening techniques one should in an enterprise setting always disable the usage of CTRL+ALT+DEL to reboot a Linux Machine. This key sequence is [ continue reading... ]

Adding Users in openSUSE Linux 11.2
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Adding Users in openSUSE Linux 11.2

Users can be managed several ways in openSUSE. One of these methods uses YaST, the management and configuration platform that openSUSE, SLES and SLED use [ continue reading... ]

Kubuntu and KDE 4 User Auto Login
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Kubuntu and KDE 4 User Auto Login

Here’s a quick how to on setting user x to auto login under KDE 4. You may want to do this if it’s your machine [ continue reading... ]

Connecting to Linux via RDP using NOMAD on openSUSE 11.1
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Connecting to Linux via RDP using NOMAD on openSUSE 11.1

Novell has taken another step in making xrdp a default package for openSUSE 11.1. This is the reason why the nomad patch has been applied [ continue reading... ]

Upgrading pidgin to 2.5.2 (also GIMP and more) on openSUSE 11.0
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Upgrading pidgin to 2.5.2 (also GIMP and more) on openSUSE 11.0

I was reading a thread on the openSUSE forums where someone asked for the newest version of pidgin, but the answers given were quite “blah” [ continue reading... ]

Renaming a Logical Volume (how to rename)
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Renaming a Logical Volume (how to rename)

Today I was asked to rename a logical volume (something I hadn’t done before, but figured it was quite easy). Here’s what I ran: lvm [ continue reading... ]

Recover your lost Root Password openSUSE
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Recover your lost Root Password openSUSE

A few days ago I recieved a funny email from someone (won’t name who, or where from) that they forgot their root password. My first [ continue reading... ]

Resizing Logical Volume (LVM) on ext3 – openSUSE SLES RedHat – Extend Shrink Reduce
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Resizing Logical Volume (LVM) on ext3 – openSUSE SLES RedHat – Extend Shrink Reduce

There are a few steps you have to take to resize a partition. First, you have to resize the filesystem (be sure to do this [ continue reading... ]

Default kdesu to use sudo and not su
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Default kdesu to use sudo and not su

Have you recently installed openSUSE 11.0 and added: username ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL Into your /etc/sudoers files, only to find out now when you launch yast [ continue reading... ]