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	<pubDate>Tue, 07 Sep 2010 17:52:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>How to know when my password is going to expire in Linux</title>
		<link>http://techpulp.com/2010/09/how-to-know-when-my-password-is-going-to-expire-in-linux/</link>
		<comments>http://techpulp.com/2010/09/how-to-know-when-my-password-is-going-to-expire-in-linux/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Sep 2010 17:52:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Neo</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Administration]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[chage command]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://techpulp.com/?p=838</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Typically organizations implement periodic password expire policy to harden the security. If you want to know when your password is going to expire by yourself, the command &#8220;chage&#8221; can give you the information. This command is actually meant for super user (root user). However a normal will be able to retrieve information about himself if [...]


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		<title>How to bind my mysql server to a specific IP address</title>
		<link>http://techpulp.com/2010/09/how-to-bind-my-mysql-server-to-a-specific-ip-address/</link>
		<comments>http://techpulp.com/2010/09/how-to-bind-my-mysql-server-to-a-specific-ip-address/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Sep 2010 21:08:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Neo</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Administration]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[MySQL]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[How to make mysql server to listen on a given IP address]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://techpulp.com/?p=833</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[MySQL server contains a file my.cnf in /etc direcory of Linux. This file contains configuration of MySQL server as well as the configuration parameters of the MySQL client.
To make MySQL server listen on a specific IP address, you need to add a line similar to the following with IP address of your choice under mysqld [...]


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		<title>How to lock and unlock an user account in FreeBSD</title>
		<link>http://techpulp.com/2010/09/how-to-lock-and-unlock-an-user-account-in-freebsd/</link>
		<comments>http://techpulp.com/2010/09/how-to-lock-and-unlock-an-user-account-in-freebsd/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Sep 2010 14:52:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[FreeBSD]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[How to stop a user from logging in FreeBSD]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
Any user account can be locked or unlocked only by Administrator (i.e root user). This is done using pw command as explained below.
To lock a user account (mark) from logging in:
[root@techpulp ~]# pw lock mark
To unlock a user account (mark):
[root@techpulp ~]# pw unlock mark



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		<title>How to check status of password for an account in Linux</title>
		<link>http://techpulp.com/2010/09/how-to-check-status-of-password-for-an-account-in-linux/</link>
		<comments>http://techpulp.com/2010/09/how-to-check-status-of-password-for-an-account-in-linux/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Sep 2010 14:57:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Administration]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[How to confirm is a user account is locked before unlokcing it in Linux]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://techpulp.com/?p=810</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The need to check the status of password for an account comes if you have a habit of locking user account based on certain criteria. In another scenario, if have received requests from employees that have their user accounts expired. This scenario occurs if you have an Organization policy of locking user account for certain [...]


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		<title>How to bind a service under xinetd to a specific ip address</title>
		<link>http://techpulp.com/2010/09/how-to-bind-a-service-under-xinetd-to-a-specific-ip-address/</link>
		<comments>http://techpulp.com/2010/09/how-to-bind-a-service-under-xinetd-to-a-specific-ip-address/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Sep 2010 20:55:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Neo</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Server]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[How to change listening address of a service]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://techpulp.com/?p=830</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As an administrator,  you wouldn&#8217;t want external users to access a new service while you are setting it up. In such cases, you might want to bind the service to loop-back address (127.0.0.1) until you are sure that service is functional and not vulnerable. As a Desktop user, to increase security of the system, you [...]


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		<title>How to read Microsoft Windows .chm help files in Linux</title>
		<link>http://techpulp.com/2010/09/how-to-read-microsoft-windows-chm-help-files-in-linux/</link>
		<comments>http://techpulp.com/2010/09/how-to-read-microsoft-windows-chm-help-files-in-linux/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Sep 2010 22:45:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Neo</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Desktop]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[xchm command]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://techpulp.com/?p=828</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It is sometimes required to read Microsoft Windows help files (.chm) in Linux. Once such case could be for cross developing applications using MinGW for Windows in Linux. Another case could be reading documentation of a generic stuff like JavaScript programming etc.
Linux supports a command called &#8220;xchm&#8221; that can be used to view .chm files. [...]


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		<title>How to create passwordless account in Linux system</title>
		<link>http://techpulp.com/2010/09/how-to-create-password-less-account-in-linux-system/</link>
		<comments>http://techpulp.com/2010/09/how-to-create-password-less-account-in-linux-system/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Sep 2010 14:36:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Administration]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[How to disable password for an user in Linux system]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[How to set blank password for my account in Linux]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://techpulp.com/?p=802</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[First of all, you should know that creating a password-less account is a very bad idea. You should be knowing what you are doing before doing so. However this may be of use in certain scenarios like doing SSH or Telnet to a virtual machines created using Virtualization software like VMWare, KVM, Microsoft Virtual PC [...]


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		<title>How to install screen command in FreeBSD</title>
		<link>http://techpulp.com/2010/09/how-to-install-screen-command-in-freebsd/</link>
		<comments>http://techpulp.com/2010/09/how-to-install-screen-command-in-freebsd/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Aug 2010 20:18:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Neo</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[FreeBSD]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[To install screen command in FreeBSD, run the following commands after logging in as super user (root). Note that you should have valid Internet connection.
[root@techpulp ~]# cd /usr/ports/sysutils/screen

[root@techpulp ~]# make install
The above command should download screen command from FreeBSD repository and install it in your system.


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		<title>How to unzip files with .7z extension in Fedora Linux</title>
		<link>http://techpulp.com/2010/08/how-to-unzip-files-with-7z-extension-in-fedora-linux/</link>
		<comments>http://techpulp.com/2010/08/how-to-unzip-files-with-7z-extension-in-fedora-linux/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Aug 2010 20:31:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Neo</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Desktop]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Fedora]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[How to install 7zip in Fedora Linux]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://techpulp.com/?p=826</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[There is an open source tool names 7zip  which creates compressed files with .7z extension. Fedora Linux provides a package in its repository to install the application if required. First of all, you need to install &#8220;p7zip&#8221; package in the system as shown below. You need to login as root and the system should have [...]


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		<title>Count number of characters (strlen) in a bash variable</title>
		<link>http://techpulp.com/2010/08/count-number-of-characters-like-strlen-in-a-bash-variable/</link>
		<comments>http://techpulp.com/2010/08/count-number-of-characters-like-strlen-in-a-bash-variable/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Aug 2010 21:35:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Neo</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Bash]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Bash Programming]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Bash Shell Scripting]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[strlen in Bash script]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://techpulp.com/?p=790</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The following example shows the functionality of strlen in a bash script.
[neo@techpulp ~]# echo $HOME
/home/neo
[neo@techpulp ~]# echo ${#HOME}
9
bash#
The following defines an utility function that can be used in a bash script.
#!/bin/bash

function strlen() { echo -n ${#1}; }

len=`strlen $HOME`

echo $len


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