Tag: Linux

Your Guide to Managing Directories and Files in Linux [Step by Step]

A step-by-step guide to leveraging Linux directory and file commands to administer your Linux system quickly and efficiently!

Bill Kindle Avatar Bill Kindle

10 min. read

Installing Nessus and Getting Started with Kali (Jumpstart Guide)

Install Nessus on Kali Linux, configure a network vulnerability scan, and learn to scan the local Kali Linux installation!

Justin Sylvester Avatar Justin Sylvester

11 min. read

A Guide to Running Traceroute in Linux

Learn how to use Traceroute on Linux with this quick and handy demo guide covering the basics and some popular switches.

Adam Bertram Avatar Adam Bertram

4 min. read

How to Kill a Process in Linux Using ps, pgrep, pkill and More

Learn the many ways of finding processes with ps, top, psgrep, and get-process and kill processes in Linux with the kill, killall, and stop-process commands

Bill Kindle Avatar Bill Kindle

8 min. read

The Ultimate Guide to Windows Subsystem for Linux (Windows WSL)

Learn how to natively work within Linux on Windows 10 with Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL in Windows) in this HUGE guide!

Chris Blackden Avatar Chris Blackden

14 min. read

How to Add an SSH Key to VS Code and Connect to a Host

Learn how to generate a new SSH key, add an SSH key to VS Code to set up key exchange authentication and how to set up two separate user connections.

Christopher Bisset Avatar Christopher Bisset

6 min. read

A Windows Guy in a Linux World: VS Code and Remote SSH

If you're a Windows admin learning Linux, learn to work with an important Linux topic; configuration files, in this blog post.

Christopher Bisset Avatar Christopher Bisset

9 min. read

A Windows Guy in a Linux World: Setting up SSH in Linux

If you're a Windows admin learning Linux, learn to work with an important topic; setting SSH command in Linux in this blog post.

Christopher Bisset Avatar Christopher Bisset

8 min. read

A Windows Guy in a Linux World: Midnight Commander on Linux

If you're a Windows admin learning Linux, learn to work with an important Linux topic; using Midnight Commander, in this blog post.

Christopher Bisset Avatar Christopher Bisset

6 min. read

A Windows Guy in a Linux World: Users and File Permission

If you're a Windows admin learning Linux, learn to work with an important Linux topic; user accounts and file permissions, in this blog post.

Christopher Bisset Avatar Christopher Bisset

8 min. read

A Windows Guy in a Linux World: YaST and the Desktop

If you're a Windows admin learning Linux, learn to work with an important Linux topic; the Linux desktop.

Christopher Bisset Avatar Christopher Bisset

8 min. read

How to Connect to SQL Server from Linux

If you need to run queries on a Microsoft SQL Server from Linux, learn how to set up the ODBC connection and get started.

Adam Bertram Avatar Adam Bertram

3 min. read

How to Use Python to Query WMI (Linux –> Windows)

I've recently been playing with Ansible quite a bit and, unfortunately, it's only available on Linux. Being a big Windows guy, I've had to learn a ton about how Linux and Python interact with Windows. My goal was to get my Ubuntu Linux box using Python to query WMI. Let's break it down!

Adam Bertram Avatar Adam Bertram

2 min. read