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SetUID stands for set user id on execution. The Linux systems allow for elevated or escalated privileges when executing files. This is a special type of permission that can be set on the file in addition to the usual set of file permissions. When the setuid is set on an executable file, the users can execute that file with the…
Syntax Highlighting is a feature where the readability of the displayed text is enhanced by showing certain words, phrases or keywords in differing colors or fonts. This is especially useful when viewing source code of various programming, scripting or markup languages. In fact any text with an associated grammar can have syntax highlighting. Integrated Development Environments (IDE) or Programming Editors…
When you are writing shell scripts or typing out commands in bash, you might have noticed that you can use either the single quotes (‘) or the double quotes (“) with most commands. This is true not just with scripts but with all bash commands as well. But there is a difference between the two types of quotes, single vs…
The vi or vim is a console based text editor in Linux. It is probably the most useful of Linux applications, in that you can quickly view and edit the text files right at the command shell. When viewing the text files, one of the useful features is the ability to search for a word or some text in the file….
If you are a Linux power user, you are probably working a lot with command shell both the command line interface (CLI) as well as shell scripts. Linux command line provides a lot of flexibility and powerful options when working with different commands: regular expressions, wildcards, meta characters, operators, file and i/o redirection, brace expansion etc etc. We will see…
HTTP status codes are three digits numbers that are returned by a web server in response to a web request by a client. This code provides some general information about the status of the request to the client. The server response may (or may not) also contain a descriptive text regarding the status of the request. The IANA (Internet Assigned…
Mozilla Firefox has several options to configure the start or home page in the browser. The home page button allows you to easily go to a specific webpage or URL. This is probably a website that you visit very often and is also your start page. There are a couple of different ways to set the home page on the…
If you spend any amount of time working on Linux environments, either as an user or as an administrator then it is inevitable that you will need to check the log files at some point. It is quite possible that the system or an application is misbehaving or is not working and the best way to fix the issue would be…
Mozilla Firefox is one of the most popular web browsers out there today. The firefox browser has the ability to support multiple users or profiles. This functionality works more as a way to provide the ability to separate data and configuration rather than to provide any kind of security. A Profile in Firefox is a set of files that hold the personal…
In KDE and Plasma 5, you can have as many panels as you like on your desktop. The panels are usually only useful if it contains some widgets in it. We will see how you can add, delete or modify widgets to your panels. The KDE desktop environment is based on two different types of concepts: Widgets and Containments (or…
Proxy server is an interface that allows you to connect or use a service (usually a remote resource) that is usually resource intensive. It is also used by large area network to manage network traffic and as a security measure within the network. When configuring a linux system for networking, you will also need to configure your proxy server, ie. if you…
Unix has been a NOT so popular operating system for end users that has been around almost since the computers were invented. Linux is a variation of Unix that has made some serious inroads as a viable desktop environment, but still is struggling to gain much foothold in the end user market. If you have not used Linux before, then there will be…
