Linux

The following block contains a list of files related to bash, and their location / use. /bin/bash...

Read the manual page for bash! If needed, check out my not-so-brief Introduction to Manual Pages ...

Generating Private Keys To generate a key with no password using the ed25519 algorithm, we can r...

Overview Two factor authentication is easy to configure and helps further secure your server. It...

Managing passwords Change current user password, prompt for current passwd - passwd If you can ...

Overview Yubikeys provide many different forms of secure authentication, for the sake of time th...

Reverse Tunneling this is AKA Remote Port Forwarding, where we basically forward a remote server'...

You can use scp instead, taking advantage of the added security and already-configured users on y...

Postfix is a Mail Transfer Agent (MTA) that can act as an SMTP server or client to send or rece...

When installing a fresh Linux Distribution, you might want to dual-boot, or even multi-boot, into...

Using crontab to schedule tasks for the system to perform is fairly straight forward, once you ge...

Renaming An Ubuntu Linux Host Renaming a host on Ubuntu is simple, just need to make some very s...

Creating swap memory for your host could prevent system or services from crashing when under heav...

Check out NTP-Pool for a list of pools available to different regions. Configuration Network Ti...

To define our own service with systemd, we need to create a daemon.service file. This is easily d...

To configure linux hosts to automatically install updates and upgrades, add or edit the following...

When using various Linux Distributions, you may (or may not) run into some issues with audio devi...

Show all disks, usage, and format type sudo df -T -h Filesystem Type ...

I didn't end up having luck with iw, but I'm sure it is very useful. It seems I just wasn't able ...

You can use bluetoothctl and bluetooth to control bluetooth devices To check the status of blueto...

Your system likely has many sensors built in for displaying useful information on internal hardwa...

Package Management Pacman First, you should check to verify your pacman-mirrors are configured ...

Release cycles The Ubuntu release cycle is at a glance pretty straight forward, but when on the ...

i3 is a tiling window manager. See i3 User Guide for official documentation. Also see my notes be...

See the Arch wiki on Fonts for much more information. Some of this information has been copied fr...

To mount your google drive as a network storage location on Linux, check out google-drive-ocamlfu...

Multiplexers can be used to reattach to previous sessions and manage clipboard content / session ...

Yakuake is a drop-down terminal application that i've used for years and may one day consider con...