March 26, 2009

HOW TO : Force expire sudo security permissions..

Ever run into a situation when you thought you had sudo rights on a machine and tried to issue the sudo command and upon finding that you don’t have them..get your name added to the sudoers list by begging the sysadmin.. and then frusrated when sudo keeps throwing an error that you are not part of the sudoers list? Hmm.. that is a long sentance :)..

To expire any cached security permissions, so that sudo is forced to check the sudoers files, issue the following command

sudo -k

Open Source Education

If you have time on your hand and want to learn something useful, head on over to Academic Earth (http://academicearth.org/) and view lectures from some of the best professors in the world..

I liked this one by Alan Blinder about the cause of the current economic crisis

 

Quote from his lecture.. NINJA (No Income, No Job [and] Asset] loans are bad 🙂