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  2. Magic SysRq key - Wikipedia

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    The default value of kernel.sysrq in distributions such as Ubuntu and Debian remains 176 [citation needed] (allowing the sync, unmount, and reboot functions) and 438 [10] (allowing the same functions plus loglevel, unraw, and nice-all-RT-tasks) respectively.

  3. Runlevel - Wikipedia

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    A runlevel defines the state of the machine after boot. Different runlevels are typically assigned (not necessarily in any particular order) to the single-user mode, multi-user mode without network services started, multi-user mode with network services started, system shutdown, and system reboot system states.

  4. Single-user mode - Wikipedia

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    Boot-loader options can be changed during startup before the execution of the kernel. In FreeBSD and DragonFly BSD it can be changed before rebooting the system with the command nextboot -o "-s" -k kernel , and its bootloader offers the option on bootup to start in single-user mode.

  5. Not a typewriter - Wikipedia

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    If the destination address was local, but referred to a user name not found in the local password file, the message sent back to the originator of the email was the announcement that the person they were attempting to communicate with was not a typewriter.

  6. Booting process of Linux - Wikipedia

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    SYSLINUX/ISOLINUX is a bootloader that specializes in booting full Linux installations from FAT filesystems. It is often used for boot or rescue floppy discs, live USBs, and other lightweight boot systems. ISOLINUX is generally used by Linux live CDs and bootable install CDs. rEFInd, a boot manager for UEFI systems.

  7. sudo - Wikipedia

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    After authentication, and if the configuration file permits the user access, the system invokes the requested command. sudo retains the user's invocation rights through a grace period (typically 5 minutes) per pseudo terminal, allowing the user to execute several successive commands as the requested user without having to provide a password again.

  8. passwd - Wikipedia

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    One solution is a "shadow" password file to hold the password hashes separate from the other data in the world-readable passwd file. For local files, this is usually /etc/shadow on Linux and Unix systems, or /etc/master.passwd on BSD systems; each is readable only by root. (Root access to the data is considered acceptable since on systems with ...

  9. Pseudoterminal - Wikipedia

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    The other pseudo-device, the slave, emulates a hardware serial port device, [1] and is used by terminal-oriented programs such as shells (e.g. bash) as a processes to read/write data back from/to master endpoint. [1] PTYs are similar to bidirectional pipes. [3]: 1388 Devpts is a Linux kernel virtual file system containing pseudoterminal devices.