Comment by jet on Authenticate User's Unix Credentials via Web Browser
ask user for username/password, calculate the hash of password and compare it to /etc/shadow. Problem is shadow file is visible only for root
View ArticleComment by jet on Can boot anything except windows
Can you boot the same Win media on other computer? Maybe you have to check the boot media checksum
View ArticleComment by jet on How to boot into a Linux installation on an external hard...
you have to install boot manager (Grub) on the external disk: boot from live disk and then mount /dev/sdX /mnt/ mount -t proc none /mnt/proc mount -o bind /dev /mnt/dev chroot /mnt/ /bin/bash...
View ArticleComment by jet on USB flash drive wont format
have you tried to delete or create a partition first
View ArticleComment by jet on Cause of laptop only booting once every 3-10 times
Try to blow the dust out. Also try to boot some live Linux distribution from CD or USB stick to rule out software issue (for example Knoppix)
View ArticleComment by jet on Computer won't start even after clean Windows 10 install
Boot from a Linux live CD/USB to make sure hardware is fine, for example Ubuntu or Knoppix: knoppix.org
View ArticleComment by jet on Computer won't start even after clean Windows 10 install
If doesn't boot from live Linux -> hardware issue, not Windows one. Proper diagnostics is part of the solution. Sounds like hardware issue and no matter how many times you re-install Windows it will...
View ArticleComment by jet on Linux able to read data in my external hard drive while...
What kind of file system you are using on the USB hard drive? How did you format it? How many partitions do you have there? Post output of cat /proc/partitions under Linux
View ArticleComment by jet on How to ensure SSD is healthy?
How full is this disk - if is too full, there is no enough space for relocating the blocks? Maybe you have to disable auto defrag in Windows - it is killing the disk unnecessarily . Also what is memory...
View ArticleComment by jet on Moving data to lower sectors on an SSD without defragging
Copy these files instead of moving them and then delete the originals
View ArticleComment by jet on Is there way to receive alerts on breaking news that's...
All RSS readers have configuration how frequent to poll sites
View ArticleComment by jet on Samba: Identical samba shares on Linux acting differently
check the rights of /mnt/public
View ArticleComment by jet on Cron job to run python script raises error
in the line with: HOME = "Users/me/Desktop/pythonScript/" there should be a "/" before Users
View ArticleAnswer by jet for How can I copy files with SSH?
Mount remote machine locally with sshfs and copy files with your favorite tool- cp, nautilus, konqueror, dolphin, mc etc.or use fish://username@servername in konqueror or dolphi top open the remote...
View ArticleAnswer by jet for Is there an rsync alternative, that stores compressed and...
If server is running ssh:mount remote site locally withsshfs -o nonempty,sshfs_sync,compression=yes username@host:/path/archives/ /mounted/encrypted/Create the encrypted system and mount it (The first...
View ArticleAnswer by jet for How to interrupt a running Batch file, execute a command in...
Add lines in the batch with modifications (i.e. set new value to the variable) after pause and continue the batch
View ArticleAnswer by jet for How to unzip files via an FTP connection?
You can do it if you mount ftp resource using curlftpfs:curlftpfs ftp://ftp.server.org/ /path/to/mountpointthenunzip /path/to/mount/test.zip
View ArticleAnswer by jet for How to send huge files from one server to another server
put the file on the ftp site as you tried, but from Africa usewget -c ftp.server.com/filename-c will resume interrupted download
View ArticleAnswer by jet for Why do large zip files become corrupted so often after...
After download with the browser, always wait 5-10sec. before grab the file - there are file buffers to be flushed in the browser
View ArticleAnswer by jet for Sync laptop and desktop solution/ideas?
install OwnCloud on a server, open your firewall and installClient(s) for Windows/Mac/Linux. It will work as DropBox, but yours
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