For personal linux on my personal notebooks, I’ve usually set my environment to autologin as root even under X or lower runlevels. I’ve found my workflow is very pleasant and fast, without any cumbersome need to type su or sudo or being asked by keyring or auth or something.
How can I know if /dev/sdX is a local HDD or USB key?
I’d prefer a way of doing this without root privileges.
Being new to Linux administration, I’m a little confused about the following commands:
What is a fast command line way to switch between multiple directories for system administration? I mean, I can use pushd . and popd to toggle, but what if I want to store multiples and cycle through them, rather than permanently popping them off the bottom of the stack?
I want to give a Fedora user sudo privileges. How do I do that?
I was googling this a bit ago and noticed a couple of ways, but I’m guessing that google doesn’t know all. So how do you kick users off your Linux box? also how do you go about seeing they are logged in in the first place? and related… does your method work if the user is logged into an X11 DE (not a requirement I’m just curious)?
On my personal machine, I often type sudo in front of certain commands in order to accomplish administrative tasks. I had hoped to avoid doing this throughout the day, by typing su root and providing the same password I usually do for sudo. However, the two passwords are not the same(I don’t know how to log in to su root). Is running a command with sudo different than logging in with su root and running the same command?
I installed Ubuntu on a computer that is now used by somebody else. I renamed the account with her name, but it only changes the fullname, not the user name, which is still displayed in the top right (in the fast-user-switch-applet). Is there a command to rename an Unix user account?
I found a guide that explains how to set a user’s password. I’m trying to automate it and send an e-mail to the user like: