Sharing Linux: September 2014

In this tutorial, I'm going to share on how to make password display as asterisk in the terminal.Normally when we type our password in the terminal, nothing is display. This simple tips will help you not to delete all the characters when you misspell your sudo password. :)

To do this , you need to edit sudoer file in /etc directory. Please make sure that you use visudo command to edit this file. visudo command has the function to edit the file and checking it syntax upon saving. You will not want to mess with this file as if something goes wrong, you will having problem in getting root privilege.

Steps

1)Run Visudo command to edit /etc/sudoers file

Run visudo command

2)Edit the file and save.

2.1 ) Add "Defaults" and "pwfeedback" to the file

2.2) Press "Ctrl -X" and press "Y" to save the file .

3)Exit current terminal and open new one for it to take effect.

run any sudo command and see the asterisk for password

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In this post, I'm going to share how to add Kali Linux repositories, guest addition and share folder with host in Ubuntu virtualbox. Please visit here for Kali Linux official guide.

I was having problem with my linux header file to install on my system and I think, this is the easiest way to get it done. I will share the video later on my channel .

STEPS

1)Adding reposistories Steps

1.1) Check your repositories at "etc/apt/sources.list" file and edit it if needed. By default it should have below link . Please read on Kali Linux page for more details .

deb http://http.kali.org/kali kali main non-free contrib

deb http://security.kali.org/kali-security kali/updates main contrib non-free

deb-src http://http.kali.org/kali kali main non-free contrib

deb-src http://security.kali.org/kali-security kali/updates main contrib non-free

1.2)Open the terminal and type

root@Positive-Space:~$ cat etc/apt/sources.list

check the sources.list

1.3) Edit the list if needed

root@Positive-Space:~$ vi etc/apt/sources.list

to insert in vi , press i and add above link in the file . After finished edit sources.list file , press Esc followed with :wq! to write,save and exit vi editor.