Recover Forgotten Ubuntu Password without reinstalling

If you forgot you password for your ubuntu system you can recover using the following steps Turn your computer on. Press ESC at the grub prompt. Press e for edit. Highlight the line that begins kernel ………, press e Go to the very end of the line, add rw init=/bin/bash press enter, then press b to boot your system. Your system...

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How to install OpenSSH in Ubuntu to connect to another computer

OpenSSH encrypts all traffic including passwords to effectively eliminate connection hijacking or eavesdropping on the traffic. SSH was designed as a replacement for Telnet,rlogin and rsh, which send information, notably passwords in plaintext leaving them open for interception. OpenSSH provides secure tunneling capabilities and...

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Reclaim Disk Space

Filling a partition to 100% can have an unpleasant effect on your system. When services and other programs cannot write to their log files, or cannot save data in /var, you could be in trouble. These programs won't be able to save their data, and typically quit out (or, in some extreme cases, crash dramatically!). To avoid this,...

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GNU? Linux? Oh, Ubuntu!!!

In the open source community we forget sometimes that non-techie individuals or Windows tech people don't understand what we are talking about. An example is just in this title GNU which is a recursive acronym for GNU's not Unix. Living in the FLOSS(Free Libre Open Source Software) community,...

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Media Center Update

Installed Ubuntu 9.04 64bit,Mythtv and XBMC on my media center. The stats of the media center are as follows:Thermaltake Tenor caseECS KN1SLI 939 boardNvidia 9600GTHauppague HVR 1800750GB SeagateAsus DVD2 GB RAMMost of my movies are on this box which is very convenient,my music collection is on my Quadcore desktop box whichI just...

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New Server Setup

I have been running an Ubuntu server for a while now. It comes time to try something different. CentOS 5.3 was just release not to long ago and this will be my new adventure. I have worked with a Red Hat server prior and since CentOS is basically the same thing I will be familiar with it. The new server will feature Apache of course...

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