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Sometimes renaming a domain is an essential business requirement. There are many situations, such as mergers, change of company name or migration fro…
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Microsoft introduced Fine-Grained Password Policy for the first time in Windows Server 2008 and the policy has been part of every Windows Server sinc…
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Vsftpd is a popular FTP server for Unix/Linux systems. For thoes unaware of the vsftpd ftp server, note that this is not just another ftp server, but a ma…
Linux - Unix
When you are running your own web hosting, it is important to monitor how much space is being used by each user. This is not a simple task to be done manu…
Linux - Unix
This article covers the main TCP/IP network configuration files used by Linux to configure various network services of the system such as IP Address, Defa…
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Since this document merely scratches the surface when it comes to Linux, you will probably find you have lots of questions and possibly problems. Whether…

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Remote VPN access is an extremely popular service amongst Cisco routers and ASA Firewalls. The flexibility of having remote access to our corporate networ…