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Lazy Linux: essential tricks for admins

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Re: Lazy Linux: essential tricks for admins

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great list! I especially liked the tip about sharing a screen session, been wanting a solution like that many times!

another great tip is how to list all subdomains on registered (not all dns servers allow this, many times you need to be on the same network, or it isn's allowed at all, but for solving you own dns issues it's a boon)

dig mydomain.com. axfr

Re: Lazy Linux: essential tricks for admins

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Any admins care to share some pornographic passwords? p4ss1ng g4s 1n h3r 4ss w/ my sp34r d4n4 d03s d1ld0s @t d4 d1ld0 st0re d1ck r4p3d j4n3 w/ h1s d1ng d4ng

Are you're kidding me? If I must really share. . .most sys admins encourage their users to come up with passwords that read like 'pornographic catch phrases' written in 1337 speak as means of ensuring system security while the end-user is less likely to forget their password since it's something offensive yet expressive.

Re: Lazy Linux: essential tricks for admins

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post #11

Any admins care to share some pornographic passwords? p4ss1ng g4s 1n h3r 4ss w/ my sp34r d4n4 d03s d1ld0s @t d4 d1ld0 st0re d1ck r4p3d j4n3 w/ h1s d1ng d4ng

Are you're kidding me? If I must really share. . .most sys admins encourage their users to come up with passwords that read like 'pornographic catch phrases' written in 1337 speak as means of ensuring system security while the end-user is less likely to forget their password since it's something offensive yet expressive.

People are hitting the downvote button more.

Re: Lazy Linux: essential tricks for admins

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Any admins care to share some pornographic passwords? p4ss1ng g4s 1n h3r 4ss w/ my sp34r d4n4 d03s d1ld0s @t d4 d1ld0 st0re d1ck r4p3d j4n3 w/ h1s d1ng d4ng

My general attitude to passwords is "Never choose something you'd be ashamed to recite to your mother over the phone", since you never know when you'll be in a position where you may have to do exactly that.

Re: Lazy Linux: essential tricks for admins

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What are your favorite, but lesser known Linux commands? fuser, strace, ltrace, nc come to mind offhand.

lsof, ngrep, history (only found out this one a month ago after 6 years of being a sysadmin)

What terrible names. Sorry, but from a non-Unix perspective, symbols such as 'lsof' and 'ngrep' seem arbitrary and nonsensical.
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