How To Clear / Remove the GUID Partition Table (GPT) from a drive

If a drives has a GPT (GUID Parition Table) on it, Windows 7 and Linux will happily use it.  HOWEVER, all of the add-on tools to format a partition on that drive as fat32 (for those that are using large drives) do not understand that partition table type. To clear the GPT entirely from a

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Limiting access via SSH

Generally, it is a bad idea to allow regular users on a linux server.  OpenSSH provides directives to control who does and does not have access via ssh: AllowUsers AllowGroups DenyUsers DenyGroups Any one of those directives can be used.  AllowUsers and AllowGroups is defined as “allow only the users or the users of the

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