So you’re facing a system or security audit and you need to quickly print a list of accounts for the auditor as well as their statuses. Depending on your setup, this could be a trivial task. In other cases, especially Read more…
When you run a removal command in Linux with the recursive and force options enabled (rm -rf *), you don't expect to get back a failure message. After all, YOU FORCED IT! However, it just so happens that even with Read more…
Every now and then there arises a need to send e-mail from a command prompt. In this case, the system is Red Hat Enterprise Linux and the desire is to have mailx send e-mail to a 3rd party, external system Read more…
Once again it was time for me to renew domains so I went back to my trusty post, [2014 GoDaddy Registrar Discounts Fail], I made a while ago containing the only renewal coupons I could find at the time only Read more…
I needed to create a user, grant them super user sudo privileges, update user account passwords and expire them across a number of different servers so that the actual user could log in and be forced to change their password Read more…
I searched for a while to come up with a method for expanding swap in an online way thinking that it might now be possible given all kinds of disk and file system advances over the past few years. It's Read more…
This is sadly not the first time this library has caused significant grief for WordPress CMS sites. The last was back in the fall of 2011 and this latest 0-day is much the same, allowing server based, file level access Read more…