Sneaky Nephew
My Sister was telling me that Times Up Kidz wasn’t working on my eldest Nephew’s PC, I thought this odd as it has been working very well for a number of years keeping the little blighters to a set time of PC use. I had the opportunity to visit her over Xmas and decided to take a look, once the PC had loaded and the log in screen was visible I could see the problem, my Sisters account was no longer an admin account and the Nephews was. He wasn’t around so I couldn’t get his password off him and [...]
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Linux Cheat Sheet
Linux Cheat Sheet Following on from some of my previous posts, I’m listing cheat sheets for subjects I’ve done as part of a Diploma in I.T that I’m currently studying. I’ve not had a chance to do anything else post wise due to study and work commitments of late. The following is only part of the Linux Cheat Sheet, the rest can be found in the attached Linux Cheat Sheet PDF. This was based on Red Hat. Basic Commands and files cd – Change Directory mk – Make Directory man – Manual rmdir – Remove directory pwd – Present working directory cat – view contents [...]
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Add A User to Linux Shell Script
The following code is a Linux Shell Script that is menu based to add or remove users. You could always use the GUI but real men don’t. This was created for Redhat. WordPress unfortunatley affects the formatting a bit, the script is available to download below. #!/bin/bash # User Add Menu #2 by Aaron Rockey – October 2009 clear # Clears the screen. echo “Adding or Removing Users Menu” echo “*****************************” echo “Choose from an option below:” echo echo “[1]add user simple method” echo “[2]add user with full name” echo “[3]add user with different shell” echo “[4]view last 5 users [...]
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Networking IP Addressing and Subnetting
The following is a practice test I had once, I’ve added how you work the answers out on the sheet for future reference. Part of it is below, the rest can be found in the IP Addressing and Subnetting PDF. 1. What networks do the following host IP Addresses belong to? Fairly standard, the addresses below are classful addresses so just work out what class they are; A for example is a Class B address so the network is 132.86.0.0, B is a Class A address so the network is 14.0.0.0 IP Address Subnet Mask Network Address A. 132.86.97.10 255.255.0.0 [...]
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