by ray | Sep 8, 2017 | Linux / Ubuntu, Microsoft Windows
Windows 10’s “Bash on Ubuntu on Windows” environment contains a few different components. The first time you run the bash.exe program, it will download and install an entire Ubuntu user space environment. You can access these files in File Explorer or other Windows...
by ray | Sep 8, 2017 | Linux / Ubuntu, Microsoft Windows
Windows 10’s Anniversary Update offers a big new feature for developers: A full, Ubuntu-based Bash shell that can run Linux software directly on Windows. This is made possible by the new “Windows Subsystem for Linux” Microsoft is adding to Windows 10. What You Need to...
by ray | Aug 23, 2017 | Linux / Ubuntu
Vectr is excited to announce expanding into another platform: Linux Ubuntu! Now Vectr’s app is available for download for free using Ubuntu Snap so that anyone on Ubuntu could create beautiful vector graphics easily. Ubuntu is an amazing and powerful platform used by...
by ray | Apr 2, 2017 | Linux / Ubuntu
Both Linux and UNIX use the passwd command to change user password. The passwd is used to update a user’s authentication token (password) stored in shadow file. The passwd changes passwords for user and group accounts. A normal user may only change the password for...
by ray | Apr 2, 2017 | Linux / Ubuntu
You could use the “su” command. $ whoami user1 $ su – user2 Password: $ whoami user2 $ exit logout If you want to log in as root, there’s no need to specify username: $ whoami user1 $ su – Password: $ whoami root $ exit logout Generally,...
by ray | Apr 2, 2017 | Linux / Ubuntu
About chmod chmod is used to change the permissions of filesor directories. Overview On Linux and other Unix-like operating systems, there is a set of rules for each file which defines who can access that file, and how they can access it. These rules are called file...
