Public Key Authentication with OpenSSH is preferred, as it’s a much stronger method of authenticating to your servers when compared to using password authentication. In fact, password authentication in OpenSSH should always be disabled. But before you can password authentication, you’ll need to set up public key authentication, and that’s exactly what we’ll do in today’s video.
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Linux Crash Course – Cron
As Linux server administrators, we need to be able to schedule tasks to run at some point in the future. Perhaps as a one-off command, or a job that’s expected to repeat on some sort of schedule. And that’s exactly what Cron helps us to do – by setting up a Crontab, we can schedule tasks to run at some point in the future.
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Taking a look at CrowdSec: Installation & Example Scenario
CrowdSec is a solution that aims to help protect your Linux servers, and its approach is quite different than other solutions. CrowdSec is able to utilize reputation to make intelligent decisions, and is able to be extended to meet your needs. In this video, I take a first look at CrowdSec – I’ll show you the installation process and also an example scenario so you can see it in action.
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Proxmox VE Full Course: Class 1 – Getting Started
Welcome to my brand-new Proxmox course! In this 16-episode series, I’ll teach you everything you need to know in order to get up and running with Proxmox. In this class, I’ll give you an overview of what you can expect from the course.
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Proxmox VE Full Course: Class 2 – Installation Process
Welcome to my brand-new course on Proxmox Virtual Environment! In this 16-episode series, I’ll teach you everything you need to know in order to get up and running with Proxmox. In this class, we’ll install Proxmox Virtual Environment on our server.
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Proxmox VE Full Course: Class 3 – Web Console Overview
Welcome to my brand-new course on Proxmox Virtual Environment! In this 16-episode series, I’ll teach you everything you need to know in order to get up and running with Proxmox. In this class, I’ll give you an overview of the web console.
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Proxmox VE Full Course: Class 4 – Containers vs Virtual Machines
Welcome to my brand-new course on Proxmox Virtual Environment! In this 16-episode series, I’ll teach you everything you need to know in order to get up and running with Proxmox. In this class, we’ll compare containers against virtual machines.
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Proxmox VE Full Course: Class 5 – Launching a Virtual Machine
Welcome to my brand-new course on Proxmox Virtual Environment! In this 16-episode series, I’ll teach you everything you need to know in order to get up and running with Proxmox. In this class, we’ll launch our first virtual machine. In addition, we’ll install an operating system in the VM as well as set up the QEMU agent.
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Linux Crash Course – The sed Command
In this episode of Linux Essentials, we explore the sed command. sed, aka the “stream editor” is an underused command, and that’s a shame because it’s extremely useful for manipulating text. In this video, I’ll show you the basics of the sed command.
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Linux Crash Course – Managing Groups
In this episode of Linux Essentials, we take a look at group management. You’ll see commands such as
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Pop!_OS – FULL Beginners Guide (updated for 21.04)
Pop!_OS is an awesome Linux distribution, and a favorite among many Linux users. And with good reason – it’s easy to use, has great features, it’s stable, and awesome overall. In this video, I’ll teach all of you beginners out there how to get up to speed with Pop!_OS so you can start using it.
Note: I previously already had a guide on Pop!_OS uploaded to my channel, but this one has been updated for 21.04 and the COSMIC desktop.
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Linux Crash Course – Automatically mounting storage volumes with /etc/fstab
In a previous video we went over the basics of storage, and in this episode of Linux Essentials, I’ll show you how to automatically mount storage volumes when you boot your server. The primary focus will be going over the /etc/fstab file.
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