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# Password aging controls: # PASS_MAX_DAYS Maximum number of days a password may be used. # PASS_MIN_DAYS Minimum number of days allowed between password changes # PASS_MIN_LEN Minimum...

Published at LXer: The KDE Indonesia Community will once again hold a Kopdar (local term for BoF). This meeting is the second meeting after the successful meeting in 2018. The activity will be held...

Abovethelaw.com reports on a lawyer convicted of money laundering and fraud (https://abovethelaw.com/2019/11/former-biglaw-partner-convicted-in-cryptocurrency-scam/) using the cybercurrency "Onecoin."...

Published at LXer: Setup FTP on Google Cloud with VSFTP on Ubuntu 18.04. In this guide you are going to learn how to setup a FTP server and provide access to particular directory as chroot for a...

Published at LXer: Mozilla, Intel, fastly, and Red Hat Form the Bytecode Alliance, Kdenlive 19.08.3, Volla Phone, Google Project Nightingale, Linux Feels Slower - because it is, Shovel Knight,...

I've been given some hardware that uses a M41ST87W combined i2c RTC and tamper detect chip. The intention is to use the RTC part as the Linux RTC, and the tamper detect and RAM storage separately. ...

Hi all, I'm working for a call center and they use ZOIPER and PULSE for their soft phones. We are getting alot of issues with the USB Dongles and headsets losing the USB settings. the current fix is...

Published at LXer: Bitwarden is a fantastic tool for managing passwords. It has applications for every platform, a browser plugin, and a self-hosted version, and it offers some great password...

Hello everyone, I decided 2 or 3 weeks ago to ditch Windows for Linux on my computer (yay me). The past weeks i have been juggling my files so that i won't loose anything switching from one OS to...

Published at LXer: This post is about installation of MySQL using MariaDB on the major Linux distributions. Read More......

I am contemplating a new Bodhi 5.0 installation and recall that its file manager isn't compatible with timeshift's Browse feature. I'd like to set this up so it works, from the outset. Any...

Hello, The website slint.fr just moved from a shared host to a Linode VPS on which I have more control. I mention this because in some posts @ LQ I have mentioned files intended for Slackware, at...

I was just trying to package my libressl build and I've stumbled onto a problem with pkgtools link handling. When I did an installpkg it threw out a handful of bash errors about 'type' file not...

Can someone point me in the right direction! I am trying to mount a cifs mount from one Linux server to the other. The reason for using samba, is simply to keep things organized. There are Linux...

Published at LXer: This tutorial helps you to install EPEL Repo on RHEL 8 and CentOS 8 Systems. Read More... (https://www.2daygeek.com/install-enable-epel-repository-on-rhel-centos-oracle-linux/)

Terminology has been updated in our main repos to version 1.6 released last week. From the e mailing lists: ---Quote--- With 95 new commits, Terminology 1.6.0 is ready. It packs UI ...

Hello, everyone! I'm new here so, nice to meet you. Usual, I'm stupid when it comes to use new things and all movements went bad.. I got Kali Linux recently on my laptop. Actually, I'm only Wi-Fi user...

Published at LXer: Even though open source software (OSS) is pervasive in IT, many people in business don't understand what open source is and how it differs from proprietary software. According to...

I am trying to execute a mail read using telnet on pop3 port , however i did not had any luck . My objective is to connect with telnet using a line in bash , get all the stats from specific username...

Hi all, I installed puppy xenial 7.5 on a separated partition of my hard drive, it installed apparently well until the grub installation option. Originally the installation appears to use Grub4Dos...

Published at LXer: Using an iPhone as an external Ubuntu drive used to be tricky, but that situation has changed. Here's how you can mount your iPhone on Ubuntu. Read More......

Hello all! I am new to Fedora and caused an issue I need resolved. I went into display settings and disabled one of my monitors (#3) and it shut off like I expected. Now I want to re-enable it, but...

Published at LXer: After being a Fedora user for a while, you may have come to enjoy it. And in fact you might want to encourage others to try Fedora. You don’t need any special privileges or to...

Been reading about PureOS. Wondering if Mint offers enough privacy (as opposed to security) or is it advisable to go to Pure?? Interested in no being tracked/followed.

I have a laptop with Via electronics and a Via Chrome graphics chip. It used the openchrome driver in AntiX-17 and -18 without problems. When installing AntiX-19, I had to use safe mode to get the...

Hi All, === openSUSE Leap === uname -r = 4.12.14-lp151.28.7-default === VERSION ="15.1" === ID="opensuse-leap" === Dell OptiPlex 780 === X86-64 === Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 950...

I am installing httpd 2.2.15 in centos 7.7, but its throwing error message. please help me out. Error: Package: httpd-2.4.6-90.el7.centos.x86_64 (@base) Requires: httpd-tools =...

Published at LXer: Toradex has released an experimental version of an OTA updater for its new Torizon embedded Linux distribution. Torizon OTA offers fault-tolerant features and supports web-based...

Hi, all, I'm running Debian 10.2 and ran apt-get update && apt-get upgrade within the past week (sorry that I don't remember the date). Today I tried to use sudo for the first time since then and...

Hi everybody I setup rsyslog on my Debian 8 to save logs from network devices to files owned by user named netdev (for example :)) Because network devices admins often start debug mode on...

Im having a problem with "OR" operator in "if" condition. At the moment it works like AND. quit() should be executed if any of the inputs is not numerical/intiger. Meanwhile, it works ONLY if...

Published at LXer: This tutorial explains how to download and install Go on CentOS 8. Read More... (https://linuxize.com/post/how-to-install-go-on-centos-8/)

hello. just install 31 and am looking for security hardening guide. the fedora site documention doesn't seem to have what i'm looking for (like disabling unneeded services, etc.,). appreciate if...

just installed fedora 31 and im unable to find an article on security hardening for fedora linux. appreciate if anyone who has done it or have an article can guide me in the right direction.

Published at LXer: Docker is a containerization platform that allows you to quickly build, test, and deploy applications as portable, self-sufficient containers that can virtually run everywhere. ...

Hi I've been using Linux for quite some time (Started out with Minix for those who experienced that). My aim is to be more active in the community. Currently exploring setup/configuration of...

I'm having a problem where when I select the OS to boot grub boots into something else.I want to boot into fedora 30 but grub boots KDE Neon instead. Here's some relevant parts from the grub.cfg. ...

Published at LXer: In this article, we will explain how to generate a CSR on a Linux server or desktop using the command line. We will use Debian 10 OS for describing the procedure. Read More......

Published at LXer: A howto and review of a new Logitech C922x Webcam on Peppermint OS Linux 10, doing green screen (chroma key) on OBS Studio. Read More... (https://youtu.be/epb1u1BYhzg)

Hi All, I have a client with an machine which has a very old Ubuntu operating system with many web applications in it. This server has post fix installed and procmail but not dovecot. I need to...

What does the '=' mean in iptraf(Version 3.0.0)? Here is the Screenshot (https://i.stack.imgur.com/F2vxW.png)

Published at LXer: I'm not a pythonista, and what little I know about Python for data work amounts to a few published recipes. Out of curiosity, I sometimes compare those recipes with the GNU/Linux...

I'm posting this here because I couldn't find Pop!OS in the list of distros. Since it's based on Ubuntu, I thought this would be the best option. I have a dual boot system on an Acer Swift3 (SSD...

Published at LXer: Let's Encrypt generally only allows you to get certificates for specific domain names. Here's how to obtain a wildcard certificate from Let's Encrypt. Read More......

I would like to have a usb drive which I can plug in to any computer and it will run as a linux computer, including having documents etc. I am using Linux Mint 19.2 on an Intel NUC as my main...

Published at LXer: The security-oriented Container Linux by CoreOS GNU/Linux distribution has been updated this week with all the necessary patches to mitigate the latest Intel CPU...

My openstak doesn't work the console shows: Nov 22 02:51:15 node8 devstack@n-api-meta.service[1064]: ERROR nova Nov 22 02:51:15 node8 devstack@n-api-meta.service[1064]: ERROR nova Nov 22...

Published at LXer: There is a command named "ubuntu-support-status" which tells us the actual support period of a Ubuntu distribution. You don't need to go to Ubuntu site or any other sites. ...

Hello, in the pcb board i have the slot for M.2 sata ssd. when i installed the sata ssd and connect to the linux os, linux cannot detect the sad. however when i do fdisk -l, it shows /dev/sda 119 G(...

Published at LXer: This article shows you step-by-step how to install Debian 10 on your server or desktop. Read More... (https://vitux.com/how-to-install-debian-10/)