Linux from Scrach

Give sudo access to only a particular command

http://askubuntu.com/questions/90726/is-it-possible-to-give-sudo-access-to-only-a-particular-command

# Make a new group, web (call it what you wish)
sudo addgroup web
 
# Add your developer(s) to the web group (use their login name).
sudo usermod -a -G web your_developer(s)
 
# Then run sudo visudo
# Add in a line
%web ALL=(ALL) /usr/bin/service apache2 *
 
# The developers can then run
sudo service apache2 *
 
**Do NOT add your admin user to the web group**

Hardware information

  • inxi -Fx
  • lscpu
  • lshw -short
  • hwinfo –short
  • lspci
  • lsscsi
  • lsusb
  • lsblk
  • df -h
  • fdisk -l
  • mount | column -t
  • free -m
  • dmidecode
  • cat /proc/cpuinfo
  • cat /proc/version
  • cat /proc/scsi/scsi
  • cat /proc/partitions
  • hdparm -i /dev/sda
  • lstopo

http://www.binarytides.com/linux-commands-hardware-info/

ldap

Disable coredump

sysctl -w kernel.core_pattern=|/bin/false
ulimit -c 0

Ref https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt