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Sep/10

Removing Files Starting With —

Filed Under Linux at 28th September 2010 12:48 by
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I encountered an interesting problem today. I created a file called –verbose (obviously I passed the argument incorrectly) but trying to remove it more of an issue. Typing rm -f –verbose makes the command rm think it’s a parameter rather … Continue reading →

31

Jan/10

Enable SFTP On VSFTPD In Ubuntu

Filed Under Linux, Security at 31st January 2010 0:01 by

Enabling SFTP is very easy and makes FTP protocol a lot more secure than traditional FTP because passwords are not sent in plain text which is susceptible to a lot of things such as packet sniffers, man-in-the-middle, etc. Assuming VSFTPD … Continue reading →