Allow sudo without password
To allow sudoing without a password you will need to add the following to /etc/sudoers where username is your username. username ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD:ALL
Ubuntu 19.10 (Eoan)
Interacting with the clipboard from terminal using xclip
Introduction In this guide I will be showing you how you can interact with the clipboard from the terminal. The focus of this will be how you can do things like copy the contents of a file (or output from a program) directly into memory and also how you can paste directly into a file … Read more
Creating a Android/AOSP Build machine on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction In this guide I will be going through the process of setting up an Ubuntu 20.04 LTS machine for building custom Android ROMs. This will be done by setting up our machine, getting the Android Open Source Project’s (AOSP) code from Google and actually building it. This guide will be aimed at building a … Read more
Setup Public Key Authentication on Ubuntu or Debian
Introduction In this tutorial, I will be showing you how you can setup OpenSSH to allow you to securely login via SSH Keys. This is very useful as it adds an extra level of authentication and also works as a great protection against people trying to guess your passwords! Prerequisites In order to follow this … Read more
Change Hostname on Ubuntu
You can change the hostname on ubuntu via the terminal using the following command sudo hostname [newhostname] You may need to open up a new terminal window for you to see this change. To make this persistent, you can edit the following two files by replacing the previous hostname to the new one. sudo nano … Read more
Add new sudo user in Debian and Ubuntu
For this to work, you will need to have access to an account with sudo privileges already. This has been tested on Ubuntu 14.04 but will most likely work on all Debian based distributions. If you are creating a new account then you can use the following command sudo adduser [username] This will then create … Read more
Use SCP to transfer files over SSH
In this tutorial, I will be showing you how you can transfer files between servers. Below, you should be able to see this been done. Download to this server If you are currently connected to a server and would like to download a file to it from another server, you will need to run a … Read more