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Ubuntu: install latest git client from PPA to fix ‘unsafe repository’ errors

Since the announcement of CVE-2022-24765, newer git clients from the Ubuntu security and archive package repositories may throw errors about “unsafe repository … is owned by someone else” if directories are not owned by your personal user id. First, try to resolve the issue by running the command suggested in the error message. # attempt Ubuntu: install latest git client from PPA to fix ‘unsafe repository’ errors

Ansible: installing the latest Ansible on Ubuntu

Update Sep 2023: Installing ansible-core at user level (not system) with pip Ansible is an agentless configuration management tool that helps operations teams manage installation, patching, and command execution across a set of servers. In this article I’ll describe how to install the latest release of Ansible.

Ubuntu: Testing the first candidate kernel patches for Meltdown CVE-2017-5754

The Meltdown vulnerability affects Intel and some ARM (but not AMD) processor chips and can allow unprivileged access to memory in the kernel and other processes. Canonical has committed to kernel patches to address this issue by January 9, 2018 and the first candidate kernel patches have now been released for Xenial and Trusty LTS. UPDATE Jan 11 Ubuntu: Testing the first candidate kernel patches for Meltdown CVE-2017-5754