Admin Linux Basics

Useful commands for operating and maintaining a linux system:

Creates a new SETI member with an annex drive. If password is not chosen, a secure password is automatically generated.

sudo ~/home/alex/scripts/make_user [username] (password)

Checks file size usage in current directory. This is most useful in /home to determine who downloaded hundreds of gigs of fits to their desktop without realizing.

sudo du -d 1 -h | sort -rn

Mounts our annex hard drive to store large quantities of data.

sudo mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt/annex

Restarting SSH for X2go issues.

sudo systemctl restart ssh.service
sudo systemctl restart sshd.service