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Bread and butter from React and Rails, but currently exploring Linux System Administration and Cloud Solutions/DevOps.
Learning everyday. Follow along with my series on creating Chrome Extensions, Desktop Apps (soon), and PWAs.
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I learned today that my main blog posts should be called "Today I Learned"s. I'm surprised my last post was over two months ago. I've been working on my new Chrome extension project, Chorus, making features, fixing problems, and getting it ready for ...
TLDR: Fix a bug, package and upload to Developer Dashboard, fill forms, submit for review, and look at analytics after going live. In this post, we want to create and submit an initial release for the Chrome Web Store and upload it to Github. Before ...
Here's a recap of what we want to accomplish for the first feature: Either disable or remove all the Add to queue UI (on hover and via the dropdown: Enable or disable the first feature by clicking on the extension in the toolbar, which controls t...
Building a Youtube Add-on to Regain Control of Queue Playlist
TLDR: This article demonstrates how to use AppleScript to control Spotify and display song information in a tmux status bar. Tmux is a terminal multiplexer: it enables several terminals to be created, accessed, and controlled from a single screen. T...
The System admin team of
xFusionCorp Industrieshas installed a backup agent tool on all app servers. As per the tool's requirements, they need to create a user with a non-interactive shell.Therefore, create a user named
javedwith a non-interactive shell on theApp Server 2
ssh into App Server 2 using as steve : ssh steve@172.16.238.11 . Enter password when prompted. Currently only users steve and ansible exist in this server
Create user javed with non-interactive shell: sudo adduser -s /sbin/nologin javed . -s is a flag to set the shell for a user. Below I authenticate as root so the sudo prefixes are unnecessary.
nologin displays a message that an account is not available and closes the connection and returns non-zero. It is intended as a replacement shell field to deny login access to an account.
Creating a user with a non-default $SHELL. Th nonlogin shell is non-interactive and used for disabling a user account in the case of suspicious activity or upon user workplace/contract termination. The shell can also be updated using usermod -s .
A custom message can be set for any attempts to log in as the disabled user account by editing/creating a /etc/nologin.txt file.