Paul de Vrieze

131 reputation

	131 reputation	bio	website		visits	member for	4 years
3 badges		location	Switzerland		seen	Feb 9 at 20:51

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Feb 17	comment	Change group policy settings for accounts? The link does not seem to be valid anymore
Jul 23	answered	Is there a way to SSH / SCP to another server as a different user, via a script?
Jul 23	answered	Open Source Linux network analyzer
Jul 22	awarded	Teacher
Jul 22	answered	Gentoo Linux useful utilities
Jun 9	comment	As a Windows administrator, what were the issues you encountered with trying to learn a linux distro? If you want to go further, you will have to learn how to build packages yourself. Start with taking an existing package and modifying something (like a config option). Most software is actually almost trivial to create a package for as all they require is configure; make; make install
May 30	answered	Using DD for disk cloning
May 30	comment	Using DD for disk cloning You can actually also use a read-only mount. A filesystem can be remounted with: mount -o remount,ro /path/to/device
May 26	comment	How to perform a secure rsync between servers across an unsecured network Why the chroot? You do know that a chroot does not really improve security that much. Further, if you already go out providing ssh then rsync over ssh does not reduce the safety of the system. Also think about it that what rsync over ssh does is invoke the rsync binary on the server. You can secure that the same way you secure your copy command.
May 19	awarded	Critic
May 19	awarded	Supporter
May 3	answered	How do I find out what version of Linux is running?