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Vincent Danen

About Vincent Danen

Contributor to TechRepublic.

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.

Vincent Danen

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.
  • Blog Post

    Get a complete security toolkit with BackTrack 3

    August 12, 2008 6:00am 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...

    15 Latest comment by Neon Samurai

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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...

    Provided by: Vincent Danen

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    Customize the Joe text editor

    August 5, 2008 6:00am 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...

    3 Latest comment by soctuvan@...

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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...

    Provided by: Vincent Danen

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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.

    Provided by: Vincent Danen

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    Install extra packages on the ASUS Eee PC

    July 28, 2008 12:02pm 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.

    3 Latest comment by ahjosh@...

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    Installing Mandriva 2008.1 on the ASUS Eee PC

    July 21, 2008 6:00am PDT

    Out of the many distributions that work on the Eee PC, Mandriva Linux 2008 Spring (or 2008.1) is one that works exceptionally well. It can be installed to the built-in SSD or onto an external SD card.

    7 Latest comment by tony_able@...

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    Installing Mandriva 2008.1 on the ASUS Eee PC

    July 15, 2008 12:00am PDT

    The Xandros distribution that comes with the ASUS Eee PC 900 is a great experience for those new to Linux, but for more advanced users, it may feel quite limited. Out of the many distributions...

    Provided by: Vincent Danen

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    ASUS Eee PC is a good option for a lightweight laptop

    July 14, 2008 12:38pm PDT

    The Asus Eee PC 900 is a great out-of-the-box Linux laptop for new users. With the default Xandros install, everything just works. The boot speeds are amazing, and suspend/resume works great....

    37 Latest comment by asus-eeepc

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    GUI scripting with Zenity

    July 8, 2008 7:15am PDT

    Vincent Danen introduces you to Zenity, a tool that allows you to create GUI prompts for shell scripts. Zenity creates GUI widgets and windows that can be used in a shell script.

    3 Latest comment by p33d33

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    GUI scripting with Zenity

    July 8, 2008 12:00am PDT

    Zenity is a tool that allows you to create GUI prompts for shell scripts. Similar to the dialog tool, which creates nice "graphical" text interfaces for the CLI, Zenity creates GUI widgets and...

    Provided by: Vincent Danen

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    Send mail with eSMTP for a simple, single-user system

    July 1, 2008 7:49am PDT

    Vincent Danen introduces you to eSMTP, a lightweight mail "server" solution that also allows per-user configuration files, making it useful even for multi-user systems.

    10 Latest comment by kellyjackie@...

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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...

    Provided by: Vincent Danen

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    Chroot users with OpenSSH: An easier way to confine users to their home directories

    June 24, 2008 6:07am 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....

    9 Latest comment by infam0us1

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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....

    Provided by: Vincent Danen

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    Use Fuse to mount remote ssh directories

    June 17, 2008 6:54am PDT

    Vincent Danen introduces the Fuse Project, a way to edit files remotely with plugins like sshfs, which transparently makes an SFTP connection to a remote system seem like nothing more than a local...

    13 Latest comment by travisn000@...

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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...

    Provided by: Vincent Danen

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    Realize the flexibility of OpenSSH

    June 10, 2008 7:01am 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...

    5 Latest comment by pgit

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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...

    Provided by: Vincent Danen

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    Delegate privileges to users with sudo

    June 2, 2008 12:02pm PDT

    Vincent Danen offers a quick primer about sudo and how you can use it to delegate different privileges to users.

    4 Latest comment by vdanen