By default Linux does NOT enable password aging. This may be a requirement in your organization (or Proof-of-concept). There are different mechanisms for implementing (such as utilizing your active directory policies), or doing things manually. In my specific case, there were two viable options: 1) use CentrifyExpress (free product) which basically adds the Linux box…
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Migrate WordPress site to another location
There are numerous ways of accomplishing a migration from one location to another. This can happen for a variety of reasons (such as version updates to wordpress). Another case could be moving to a new domain. The steps below will detail backing up (and restoring) a WordPress instance to another location. This will be accomplished…
Mondo restore FUBAR
I recently had a system which was passing all of the backup tests. However, when you attempted to boot the generated ISO from a VM it would crash and burn. It would basically give a kernel panic right after booting ramdisk0. Interestingly enough if you forcibly told it to boot with a bigger ramdisk0 it…