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Add Users to Sudo Group On Linux Mint 20 - Best Method ?

This article covers how to add and remove users in the sudo group to manage the sudo privileges of the users. sudo is a command-line program that allows trusted users to execute commands as root or another user.

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Install VeraCrypt on CentOS 8 - Best Method ?

This article covers how to install VeraCrypt on CentOS 8. VeraCrypt is free open-source disk encryption software for Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux. In case an attacker forces you to reveal the password, VeraCrypt provides plausible deniability. In contrast, to file encryption, data encryption performed by VeraCrypt is real-time (on-the-fly), automatic, transparent, needs very little memory and does not involve temporary unencrypted files.


Features of VeraCrypt:

  • Creates a virtual encrypted disk within a file and mounts it as a real disk. 
  • Encrypts an entire partition or storage device such as USB flash drive or hard drive. 
  • Encryption is automatic, real-time(on-the-fly) and transparent. 
  • Parallelization and pipelining allow data to be read and written as fast as if the drive was not encrypted. 
  • Encryption can be hardware-accelerated on modern processors. 

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Install and Configure JFrog Artifactory on Ubuntu 20.04 - Best Method ?

This article covers how to Install JFrog Artifactory on Ubuntu. JFrog Artifactory is the world’s most advanced repository manager designed to integrate with the majority of continuous integration and delivery tools. With JFrog Artifactory, delivering an end to end automated solution with artifacts tracking from development to production becomes a reality.

Jfrog provides you with an interactive, responsive user interface. It has more features than other artifactory management tools. For more information please visit the official site of JFrog. https://jfrog.com/open-source

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Use Conditional Statements in Bash Scripts

This article covers an overview of conditional statements in bash scripts. Bash expression is the combination of operators, features, or values used to form a bash conditional statement. Conditional expression could be binary or unary expression which involves numeric, string or any commands whose return status is zero when success.

Bash if conditionals can have different forms. The most basic if statement takes the following form:

if TEST-COMMAND
then
  STATEMENTS
fi

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Install GIMP on Ubuntu 20.04 - Best Method ?

This article covers the different methods to install GIMP on Ubuntu 20.04 system. Also, we have also elaborated on how to launch and remove GIMP from the system. With GIMP, you can perform almost any image editing task, from the simplest task to the most complex image manipulation technique.  Gimp can be used for photo retouching, image composition, and image authoring.


How to remove GIMP on Debian / Ubuntu ?

To completely remove the GIMP package from your system, run the following command:

$ sudo apt purge gimp
$ sudo apt clean

Next, remove the ~/.gimp directory in your home directory to get rid of the profile settings.

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Enable SSH on CentOS 8 - Best Method ?

This article covers how to enable SSH on a CentOS machine and connect to it using a client machine. If you want to make your remote access secure, Read our post on the Best Ways to Secure Your SSH Server.

SSH provides the ability to transfer files between remote systems. When a user logs into a remote system using SSH, they receive a command prompt allowing them to enter commands on the remote system as if they were sitting at the remote system and had opened a terminal session.


How to Install OpenSSH Server Software Package ?

Enter the following command from your terminal to start the installation process:

$ sudo yum –y install openssh-server openssh-clients

This command installs both the OpenSSH client applications, as well as the OpenSSH server daemon, sshd.

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