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About Vincent Danen
Vincent Danen works on the Red Hat Security Response Team and lives in Canada. He has been writing about and developing on Linux for over 10 years.
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Inside TechRepublic with Vincent Danen
October 2, 2008 9:12am PDT
Inside TechRepublic with Vincent Danen article root Interview with Linux guru Vincent Danen Vincent and I go way back, and so it was fun to be able to catch up with him during this Inside...
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Linux cheat sheet: KDE and Konquerer keyboard shortcuts
May 14, 2007 12:00am PDT
Using the keyboard is often the fastest way to accomplish certain tasks. Vincent Danen put together this quick-glance list of shortcuts that can help speed up navigation, window and desktop...
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Use runit to supervise Linux services
May 5, 2008 12:00am PDT
Gerrit Pape's runit is similar to djb's daemontools and allows you to run supervised services, like daemontools, and also allows you to replace SysV init completely if you so desire. Vincent Danen...
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Log Linux services with runit
May 12, 2008 12:00am PDT
Vincent Danen explains how to configure logging for supervised services with the runit program.
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Finding weak OpenSSL/OpenSSH keys
May 19, 2008 12:00am PDT
Vincent Danen reports on a recent vulnerability that affects Debian-based systems, including Ubuntu. This vulnerability caused OpenSSL to generate weak keys for anything relying on OpenSSL,...
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Dig for more data in the /proc directory
May 23, 2008 12:00am PDT
Vincent Danen introduces you to the /proc filesystem, which you can mine for a lot of helpful information about your system and running processes on your system.
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Delegate privileges to users with sudo
June 2, 2008 12:00am PDT
Vincent Danen offers a quick primer about the popular sudo program and shows you how to use it to delegate different privileges to users.
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Realize the flexibility of OpenSSH
June 10, 2008 12:00am PDT
Vincent Danen explains the flexibility and power of OpenSSH. With it, you can access systems remotely and securely; transfer files securely (using scp, sftp, or even rsync over ssh); execute...
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Use Fuse to mount remote ssh directories
June 17, 2008 12:00am PDT
The FUSE project has made editing remote files convenient by allowing local-filesystem-like access to remote files. With plugins like sshfs, which transparently makes an SFTP connection to a...
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Chroot users with OpenSSH: An easier way to confine users to their home directories
June 24, 2008 12:00am PDT
With the release of OpenSSH 4.9p1, you no longer have to rely on third-party hacks or complicated chroot setups to confine users to their home directories or give them access to SFTP services....
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Send mail with eSMTP for a simple, single-user system
July 1, 2008 12:00am PDT
Programs like Sendmail or Postfix work great for multi-user systems or servers, but this setup may be more complex than you need for a single-user desktop system. Vincent Danen introduces you to...
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Customize the Joe text editor
August 5, 2008 12:00am PDT
The Linux text editor Joe has easy-to-remember keystrokes and allows you to customize it to suit your needs. Vincent Danen tells you how to tweak the configuration file to create keybindings and...
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Install extra packages on the ASUS Eee PC
August 4, 2008 12:00am PDT
Installing extra packages on the Asus Eee PC is possible if you want more software than the average user. Vincent Danen explains how to set up Xandros repositories to make it easier to add packages.
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Get a complete security toolkit with BackTrack 3
August 11, 2008 12:00am PDT
The BackTrack LiveCD provides over 300 different tools that can be used by security professionals or system administrators. It includes tools for penetration testing, wireless cracking, network...
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Schedule periodic tasks with cron
August 18, 2008 12:00am PDT
Vincent Danen covers the basics of scheduling basic system and user tasks with cron, such as downloading e-mail at certain intervals and restarting services.
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One-time scheduling of tasks with At
August 25, 2008 12:00am PDT
Scheduling services with cron and similar tools is great for repetitive tasks but inconvenient for one-time tasks. Vincent Danen introduces the flexible At command for tasks that only need to be...
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Send messages and alerts from the command line
August 29, 2008 12:00am PDT
Vincent Danen introduces two command-line programs, wall and mail, that allow you to send simple alerts and e-mail messages to users.
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Expanding text with Snippits in Linux
September 5, 2008 12:00am PDT
Vincent Danen admires the Mac text-expanding tools like Typinator or TextExpander and has been looking for a similar tool in Linux. The best counterpart he found is a program called Snippits. Here...
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Try command-line looping for added efficiency
September 15, 2008 12:00am PDT
Creating complex commands is one of the strengths of the command line, even though it takes an investment of time to learn this skill. Using loops, you can take often-used commands that would...
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Consider these Linux file management alternatives
September 19, 2008 12:00am PDT
Vincent Danen introduces Linux file management alternatives, Gentoo, Krusader, and Midnight Commander. Here are the basics about each if you want to try something different.
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