Ondoy is now out, but the damage has been done.Please send your help to those who need them to Philippine National Red Cross (I suggest to send the donations via text):Monetary Donations1. CASH or CHECKPlease send cash or check donations to the PNRC.
Topics: Linux

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So,how do you, as a Linux System Administrator, force system users to change their passwords at first or next login? Very simple:Using chage command:If the password is already set, execute this command to expire the user account:chage -d 0 user1On...
Topics: Linux

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You may have read my previous post regarding the kernel bug 516949 (CVE-2009-2692), but that is just a workaround to secure your servers until the updated kernel versions are released. The following are the kernel versions that contain the fix for...
Topics: Linux

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Release Found: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3, 4, 5, and Red Hat Enterprise MRG.ProblemThe flaw identified by CVE-2009-2692 (Red Hat Bugzilla bug 516949) describes an issue in the SOCKOPS_WRAP macro in the Linux kernel, versions 2.4.4 and later, and...
Topics: Linux

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From time to time, we perform remote actions on the servers that we manage, including, but not limited to, automated file transfers. For this, rsync is used to simplify the operation and until recently, I encountered this weird error:sudo: sorry, you.
Topics: configuration, error, fix, Linux, permission, rsync, sudo, troubleshoot, tty, user, visudo

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