How to Check Password Expiration Date for All Users on Linux
If you enable a password policy on Linux. The password must be changed before it expires, and you will be notified when you log in to the system. If you rarely use your account,...
Category: Linux-Distributions
Three Ways to Exclude/Hold/Prevent a Specific Package from an apt Upgrade
Sometimes you may accidentally update packages that are not updated due to some application dependency. This is always the case during the entire system update or automatic package upgrade process. If this happens, it...
How to upgrade Linux Mint 19.1 (Tessa) to Linux Mint 19.2 (Tina)
Linux Mint 19.2 “Tina” was released on Aug 02nd 2019, it is a long term support release, which is based on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver). It will be supported until 2023. It comes...
How to upgrade Debian 9 (Stretch) to Debian 10 (Buster)
Debian 10 “Buster” was released on July 06th 2019, after 25 months of development with lot of new features and updated packages. It’s Long Term Support (LTS) release and will be supported for the...
topgrade – Upgrade/Update the system using single command in Linux
As a Linux administrator, you have to keep your system up-to-date to get ride out from some unexpected issues. We have to keep the system with latest patches as part of best practices.To do...
How to Change HostName in Linux
You generally set the hostname when installing the operating system. By default the system takes the server’s default name as the hostname. This will be localhost.localdomain. any name as the hostname. When they install...
How to Check the List of Installed Packages from a Specific Repository in Linux
If you want to check the list of packages installed from a specific repository, you are in the right place to do it. Why do we need this detail? This may help you to...
How to Force Users to Change Password on Their Next Login on Linux
When creating a user account with the default password, you will need to force the user’s to change their password on the next login. You should enable this if the system is not integrated...
zzupdate – Single command to upgrade Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver)
Ubuntu 18.04 was already out and got good feedback from multiple community because Ubuntu 18.04 is the most exciting release of Ubuntu in years. By default Ubuntu and it’s derivatives can be upgraded from...
How to Create/Extend Swap Partition on Linux Using LVM
We use LVM for flexible volume management on Linux, so why not use LVM for swap space? This allows users to increase the swap partition whenever they want. Generally you need to create a...
