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Managing Linux Machines
I have a bunch (hundreds) of low-end machines running Linux (mostly Ubuntu and CentOS distributions) spread out all over the world that I don't like to SSH into very often. I would like, however, to ...
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How to set different window managers to different users under Linux
I want to restrict different users to different sets of window managers. For example,
user A: openbox, fluxbox
user B: openbox
user C: openbox, fluxbox, metacity
How can I do it?
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Convertible Ultrabook w/ wearable case option that is usable in tablet mode [closed]
We have a few access points that are a pain to get to. With the availability of convertible ultrabooks increasing I'm wondering if someone has found a good option for one that you could dock (USB 3 ...
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Windows 7 switching users
I have a few windows 7 pro computers that came into my office today that were pre configured at a different location. The computers are connected to the domain but for some reason no network ...
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Zimbra Default Admin Console
What is the default address to get to a Zimbra Admin Console? Any default ports too?
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Share tiles and secondary tiles between user accounts in Windows 8
Our Windows 8 Metro application secondary tiles that we need to share between several user profiles on a single PC (tablet).
I was wondering if it is possible to copy secondary tiles (as opposed to ...
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What are reasons to disallow ICMP on my server?
An EC2 Instance has ICMP services disabled by default. While it's not totally clear to me why, I think it's because it could be a potential security risk. At the moment I'm enabling Echo Responses ...
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Cryptographic Service error message on Windows XP SP3
Does anyone have an idea on what can be done to fix the cryptographic services on a windows xp service pack 3 machine?
It might also be a wrong security setting, but I think I would have found it, if ...
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How can I limit the disk I/O priority for a process in Windows XP?
I have a setup where a Windows XP machine gets backed up to a server on the LAN, using rsync. Because of operational requirements, the backup needs to happen while the machine is in use. While this is ...
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Is there any rm log with removed files?
Is there any way to check what was recently removed with rm command?
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FreeBSD vs Linux from an administration standpoint
I am a huge user of Linux in a all kinds of ways for servers, desktops, etc...
More recently I am wanting to try working with FreeBSD for certain features it has like ZFS and such.
How much does the ...
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administer windows machine
I'm a linux user.
And I need to administer (take care) of ms_windows machine.
I would love to work with that computer as with linux box under full control.
More specific:
How I can control ...
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Linux User Permissions
In resume i want to assume a id on a Unix machine but i wanna know if its possible to limite to only read rights and no write on the system , but if you enter the acc i sudo to normally without the ...
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Cannot sign into linux account - Broken Pipe - Not starting Jetty
I created a new user account for ubuntu. When I try to log into the account after entering my email I am given an error message that roughly says the following:
Broken Pipe - Not starting jetty
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How to force Chrome to use proxy settings?
We're about to deploy Google Chrome to our users. The thing is, we use a proxy server to filter HTTP connections to force users to just use a handful of websites on workplace computers.
So far I've ...
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Recovering from renamed user home directory
I changed the name of a user home directory, but couldn't specify this as the new home directory for that user with usermod until I logged out of that user.
Not having any other user accounts, I gave ...
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Difference between Windows server 2003 OS & windows server 2003 Domain Functional Level? [closed]
Hope you're fine.
I just wanted to know if there's a difference between :
-An Active Directory Domain controller with the Windows server 2003 domain functional level
And
-And using the whole ...
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Windows Remote Desktop (mstsc) Keyboard Sticking
I am a sytem Administrator and use windows Remote Desktop extensively. It works well OTHER than the keys 'stick' sometimes like the 'alt', 'caps lock', 'shift', 'ctrl'. So I have to 'ctrl-alt-del' to ...
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How do I modify my bios with SGABIOS?
I have a Gigabyte D525tud board with an Award 6.00 BIOS; it is the f7 revision of the Gigabyte bios for the rev 1.4 board. I do NOT have a keyboard or monitor, and instead I have been using a ...
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linux shell installing packages automaticc
I want to install packages automatically by running a script
I can write
yum install php
but I want it to install another package once installation of the php package is completed
Is there any ...
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Ultrasurf causing huge network latency
We run a small network with a Squid proxy. Over the last few weeks, the network has been slowing down and completely stopping for no apparent reason. We discovered that it was due to some users ...
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Should a system administrator know LILO? [closed]
Is LILO outdated? Should system administrators today bother learning and/or using it?
Is LILO used anywhere today?
I'm reading a book on administration and that was one of the topics (the book is ...
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How can I uninstall a printer that doesn't provide the 'remove' option?
I have Windows 7 (32-bit) and installed a printer. During the setup something went wrong and now I have a printer entry in the list where I can just Resolve Problems but not Remove (there is no Remove ...
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Prevent users from closing admin RDP
I am configuring a Windows 7 computer that will be administered over RDP. The PC is not member of a domain. Is there a way to prevent users from logging in locally and kicking the admin?
I have no ...
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Installing multiple versions of a shared library
I am running ubuntu 10.04 and I want to use tmux 1.6. tmux has a dependency on libevent 2.
My solution was to compile libevent2 and drop into /usr/local/lib then compile tmux against this lib and ...
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How would I administer my linksys router through ssh?
Most of the administrative tasks required some http service used over a web browser. Is there a way to perform adiminstrative tasks to my router through ssh? Sometimes having a GUI is not possible ...
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Is it possible to show “ New Task” of Task Manager from tasks of Task Manager only?
I work on remote Windows Server 2008 machine over RDP and frequently need to revive broken copy&pasting over RDP. Which is killing rdpclip process in Task Manger (tab "Processes") and launching ...
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List of all Windows administration command line tools [closed]
I sometimes have to use Windows command line tools like netsh, route or ipconfig.
Is there a place where all the Windows administration command line tools are listed?
Of course, there is MSDN for ...
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Reset Windows 7 group policy settings
For my system, there are two accounts. I applied a few changes to a secondary account via the group policy object snap-in of Window's management console. Despite applying these changes to the ...
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LDAP management hosted on linux for windows machines
I have an isolated lan with 30+ windows workstations conected to debian server. By saying isolated means that workstations do not have (and must not have) access to internet or other networks or ...
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CentOS 5.6: Setup global extensions in Firefox 10.0.1
I have setup firefox to run off a server for a group of people, so that it runs for them without a local install. Now, I wish to also setup a few extensions globally, which would be available to all ...
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varios files like `MbcYHt` all over my filesystem. where are they coming from?
Recently, I noted that some directories of my server are cluttered with files like MbcYHt, KZDmv_, K40bS9, etc., i.e. always a filename of size 6 which seems to be base64 encoded. The file size is ...
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How do I access the Linksys E2000 wireless router setup page
I'm trying to access & configure my wireless router's options.
The wireless router is a Linksys E2000 and the default gateway's IP address is 192.168.33.1
I've gotten into the router setup by ...
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Restart Solaris 10 SMF service automatically each day
I am currently facing the problem how to restart a SMF service automatically each day at a specific time. The simplest solution probably is to use cron. Currently my main objection is handling "lost ...
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Remove password on OSX / Creation of that user
As much as I would like to figure out the problem, at this point too much time has been invested in deleting a stupid key when I already had a solution (the command line creation) that works. I'm ...
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how to use mkpasswd to generate a password in shadow file in ubuntu 10 lucid
Today I upgrade my server to ubuntu 10 lucid, The first thing that occur to me is the new encrypted method, it's the default line
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What is the best way to manage groups of linux boxes remotely? [closed]
I'll soon have 30 boxes being used at one of our workplaces under my control and a few other groups (not as large) in separate locations.
These boxes are behind a router and will occasionally need ...
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gdevilspie doesn't work on my PC
gdevilspie is a tool that allows you to write rules to move windows to any position as you wish when you open them.
I have Ubuntu 11.04 with GNOME 2.32.1 on my PC.
I like the features that ...
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Why insist on rolling out an MSI package?
I have created a program in Autohotkey, which creates a few shortcut keys that a whole company with 400 people wants to have installed permanently. The way I imagine the program to work is that a ...
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How to disable Wireless Administration for Belkin N150 Router?
I just discovered that although Remote Administration is disabled, I can still access And make changes to the router wirelessly! This is bad!
I have already set up an admin password, but I want it to ...
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Mailman add user via email
I currently manage a mailing list hosted on a mailman service.
I'd like to be able to add new users to this mailing list by sending an appropriate email to the mailman service.
Is there a tool for ...
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windows runas command with elevated privileges, user in admin group
I have a windows 7 user who belongs to admin group.
I want to execute sc command that requires admin privileges. I DON'T want to open an elevated cmd, want to be able to simply Win+R->Enter command, ...
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Error while installing RSAT (Remote SysAdmin Tools for Windows 7 with SP1)
I have Windows 7 SP1 32bit, and I can't install RSAT (Remote SysAdmin Tools for Windows 7 with SP1) x86.
I'm getting error 0x80070442 each time.
It's saying that the specified service can't be ...
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Automatic shutdown of NFSRooted machines?
I've got a server and several client computers onsite. The client computers PXEBoot and get their / via NFS from the server. The server and clients are on limited battery backup, but the power goes ...
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How to tell when a machine is fsck-ing and hasn't had a kernel panic?
I have a server with Debian on it that I regularly reboot after upgrades. Sometimes (on schedule) fsck will check a disk when the computer is booting. With the exception of sitting in front of the ...
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Cannot do sudo: “/etc/sudoers is mode 0740, should be 0440”
I have a problem:
I don't have a root password on my mac. I just have an Admin account, which can do stuff using sudo. Now, I wanted to add my normal user to the /etc/sudoers file as well. Since it ...
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how to view command history of another user in linux?
Can anybody show me how to view command history of another user? I am an admin on my machine. I can see normal history by viewing /home/user_name/.bash_history but i can't see commands of that ...
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How to interpret the output of ipconfig/all?
I am shaky on network setting up concepts.
When I do ipconfig/all on my machine, I get:
I need to set up a basic home network and want to understand these basic things and what is going on.
I ...
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Windows 7 System Crash
I am using a Laptop running Windows 7. For past few days, the system crashes for no apparent reason( as much as I know) .
Either the system crashes or become unresponsive which requires a hard ...
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Disable Spell Check, Thesaurus, Dictionary (Microsoft Word 2007)
How do I disable all 'proofreading' features in Microsoft Word 2007 for all users on a local machine?
