Tag: sysadmin
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10 Essential Linux Security Hardening Steps: AppArmor Edition
🔐 Introduction Securing Linux servers isn’t just about keeping software patched—it’s about controlling how applications behave when attackers inevitably find a foothold. AppArmor provides Mandatory Access Control (MAC) that locks down services with precise rules, ensuring they can only access the files, network, and resources they truly need for a job role or task. In…
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5 Powerful find -exec Command Examples You’ll Actually Use
June 2025 | By Johnny @ LinuxEveryday.online The Linux find command is already a powerhouse for file discovery—but pair it with -exec, and it transforms into an automation engine! Here are 5 practical find -exec combos you’ll want in your sysadmin toolkit. 1. 🗃️ Find and Rename Files Add a suffix or rename in bulk:…
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The Top 15 Linux Pipes You’ll Love (and Actually Use)
June 2025 | By John @ LinuxEveryday.online In Linux, pipes (|) are more than just syntactic sugar—they’re the reason why command-line workflows are so darn powerful. Pipes let you take the output of one command and send it as input to another, chaining together tools like Lego bricks. You get to create entirely new commands!…
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Sudo Tips and Tweaks
For most Linux users, sudo is a magical tool that lets you run any command as root (or even switch to the root user). So why not configure sudo to your liking? That’s what we’re going to delve into in this blog post! Ubuntu, Debian and other distros come preconfigured with sudo in a way…