Desktop screen sharing is ubiquitous, but there is still a lot of value in sharing a live terminal screen with another set of users that can not only view, but also have the ability to copy-paste and even provide input. The tmux utility can create a session using a shared socket. To start a tmux … Bash: Sharing a terminal screen among users with tmux
Enabling NFS on a server and client allows the client to mount a remote filesystem. Below are the steps for an Ubuntu host server and Ubuntu remote client.
If you currently store sensitive credentials in plaintext to automate scripting or integration to other systems, you should consider an extra layer of security by storing them encrypted using GPG. There is no fullproof way to hide sensitive information for a service that also needs to decrypt them as part of normal operations (think DVD … Linux: Using GPG encrypted credentials for enhanced security
We live in a multi-platform world, and the ability to easily share folders of content between users in the same protected network is a function made very convenient in the Windows world with CIFS shares (e.g. \\mydesktop\sharedfolder). Luckily for Ubuntu users, it is pretty easy to setup CIFS shares to offer that same interoperability with … Ubuntu: Creating a Samba/CIFS share to quickly share files with Windows