The following command will give sudo access to a user on a linux machine: sudo printf "myuser ALL = NOPASSWD: ALL\n# User rules for myuser\nmyuser ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD:ALL\n" | sudo tee /etc/sudoers.d/myuser > /dev/null && sudo chmod 440 /etc/sudoers.d/myuser Where myuser is the username you are granting privileges to. The command will also apply the correct […]
The following Nginx SSL configuration gives me PCI compliance as well as protection against BEAST attacks. This configuration also ensures that forward secrecy is applied in the SSL layer. More information on forward secrecy here. So this is what my typical few lines of SSL configuration would look like in Nginx vhost: server { listen […]
I installed a new verison of Ubuntu Lucid Lynx the other day on a brand new formatted hard drive. ?Installation went smoothly as you’d expect, but when I rebooted the server I was stuck on GRUB menu (my worst nightmare). ?The server just wouldn’t load the operating system and typing ‘boot’ in GRUB gave me […]
This is a useful tip for my reference.? I’ve been creating some startup scripts on my Ubuntu server lately and her are a couple of steps required to get this working. Write your startup script and place it in /etc/init.d/ directory. Let’s say you called your startup script – myScript.? You then install your script […]