Posts Tagged “linux”

VirtualBox, Gentoo and serial consoles

by Kenneth Kalmer on September 30, 2009

More as a reminder to myself for when I need this again, but I’m sure everyone needs this at least once. Having screwed up my kernel configs for my VirtualBox Gentoo image, I needed a serial console to catch the (…)

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Quick *nix shadow passwords with Ruby

by Kenneth Kalmer on May 1, 2009

Just thought I’d share this one to boost the available online information. Using String#crypt and man crypt you’ll come up with something similar to the gist below (extract from a project I’m busy working on). module Linux class User class (…)

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