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Unix & Linux

How to trigger a system self destruct with a certain password is entered

August 7, 2022 by Magenaut

How do I configure my system to destroy all personal data when a certain password is entered? The motivation behind this being NSA stuff.

Categories Q&A, Unix & Linux Tags password, security Leave a comment

Shell, Concatenating 2 strings to reference a 3rd variable

August 7, 2022 by Magenaut

I am trying to do the following in my script:

Categories Q&A, Unix & Linux Tags bash, shell, shell-script Leave a comment

Mod, Meta, Super … keys?

August 7, 2022 by Magenaut

In Window Managers circle there are some technical terms; couple of them are Mod keys and Meta keys. The questions here I am asking are

Categories Q&A, Unix & Linux Tags keyboard-layout, x11 Leave a comment

systemd start as unprivileged user in a group

August 7, 2022 by Magenaut

I’d like users in group foogroup to be able to:

Categories Q&A, Unix & Linux Tags non-root-user, systemd Leave a comment

WM_CLASS vs WM_INSTANCE?

August 7, 2022 by Magenaut

When I run xprop I get a class string that has two values, one of them i3 calls an instance, the other a class, for example on chromium-browser the xprop utility will return something like this,

Categories Q&A, Unix & Linux Tags standard, window, window-manager, x, x11 Leave a comment

How to check if there are no parameters provided to a command?

August 7, 2022 by Magenaut

How do you check if $* is empty? In other words, how to check if there were no arguments provided to a command?

Categories Q&A, Unix & Linux Tags bash, parameter, shell, shell-script Leave a comment

Problem in identifying key that causes random character in terminal

August 7, 2022 by Magenaut

I have kali linux on my laptop.I have a problem with my keyboard . Whenever i open a terminal some key is pressed automatically and ^[[5~ this character is shown in terminal. Please tell me which key causes this issue. enter image description here

Categories Q&A, Unix & Linux Tags keyboard, linux Leave a comment

Using sftp to Transfer a Directory?

August 7, 2022 by Magenaut

When I try to use sftp to transfer a directory containing files, I get an error message:

Categories Q&A, Unix & Linux Tags directory, recursive, sftp Leave a comment

ssh unable to negotiate – no matching key exchange method found

August 7, 2022 by Magenaut

I am trying to log in to my DSL router, because I’m having trouble with command-line mail. I’m hoping to be able to reconfigure the router.

Categories Q&A, Unix & Linux Tags ssh Leave a comment

iptables redirect outside requests to 127.0.0.1

August 7, 2022 by Magenaut

I have a service running on 127.0.0.1 with port 2222. I need to forward all requests to 192.168.2.2:2222 (outside IP) only from subnet 192.168.1.0/24 to 127.0.0.1:2222.

Categories Q&A, Unix & Linux Tags iptables, network-interface, port-forwarding Leave a comment
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  1. michealSmith07 on Is there a way to dynamically refresh the less command?August 21, 2022

    That is a very nice post. I like this post.

  2. anonymous on Fix libwacom9 dependency issue when upgrade DebianJune 27, 2022

    saved my day!! Thanks for the help…

  3. sreedhar on Fix libwacom9 dependency issue when upgrade DebianMay 10, 2022

    Thanks its working

  4. saintnick on Fix libwacom9 dependency issue when upgrade DebianMay 10, 2022

    remove libwacom2 worked for me as well

  5. ranafoul on Fix libwacom9 dependency issue when upgrade DebianApril 22, 2022

    apt remove libwacom2 helped on kali 2022.01. gr8

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