To change your own password, open a terminal window and type:
passwd
To change Paul’s password (which you can only do as the superuser), open a terminal window. Become root and type:
passwd paul
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Fluxbox is a window manager that can take the place of a ‘typical’ desktop environment like KDE or Gnome.
Sometimes Fluxbox is referred to as a ‘light-weight’ window manager which is accurate - it’s light. With that lightness comes speed. No more waiting the the KDE splashscreen to […]
This is one of those subjects that can get really ugly, really fast. I’m going to forgo the ugly part and look at a symbolic link from a functional level.
A symbolic link is a file that points to another file somewhere else on the system. A good example of a typical symbolic link are the […]
Setuid or SUID is a permission bit that can be set on a file or directory. I’m going to refer to suid for the remainder of this entry, but both phrases are interchangeable.
Setting the suid bit on a file allows normal users to run that application with raised (usually superuser) priviledges. Remember that when a […]
The ‘Sticky Bit’ is a permission bit that can be set on either a file or a directory.
If it is set on a file, then that file will remain in memory after execution, thus ’sticking’ in memory. This is useful when running a multi-user program (such as a bulletin board system that I ran once) […]
Every file and directory on a GNU/Linux machine has a set of permissions attached to it. This is to ensure that only the users and applications that are supposed to access a file can do so. GNU/Linux was built from the ground up as a multi-user system and these permissions are part of ensuring a […]
Ksnapshop is a KDE application that has come installed on every KDE installation I’ve ever used. It’s fast, clean, and handy. If you don’t have it installed for some reason, you can apt-get install ksnaphot or yum install ksnapshot or get it from here.
Start Ksnapshot either by rooting through your menu to find it, or […]
Now that New Linux User has been up and running for about three weeks, we’ve had some time to amass some stats. Some of which are kind of interesting (I think).
I don’t know if I’m allowed to talk visitors, but I suspect that Jeremy, Duncan, and Darren won’t mind. But to be safe, let’s just […]
There are a log of GNU/Linux applications for burning CD/DVDs, but the one I am the most familiar with is K3B. It’s probably installed on your distro already, but if not you can apt-get install k3b, or yum install k3b, or get it here.
If you got here by accident and don’t know what an ISO […]
It might be hard to believe, but there are more than two browsers for GNU/Linux. When I think about web browsers, I always think of Firefox and Konqueror. In actuality, the party is a little bigger than that.
Enter Galeon. Galeon is a Gnome-based web browser built off the Mozilla engine. Don’t let the Gnome-based thing […]
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