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Running Linux Su and Sudo Commands to Work As Root and Viewing the Linux Root User Home Directory

Example of Using the Linux su Command Run the Linux su command with the dash option, as in “su -” (but not quotes). Then type in the password for the root user and press Enter. If you’re using Ubuntu, see the alternate steps below. Now type in the pwd command and press Enter to see your “path to (current) working directory”. If the su (superuser) command above worked, you should see the directory path of /root which indicates that you are now working as the root user at the Linux command line. Type in exit and press Enter to go back to working as a “regular” user. Example of Using the Linux sudo Command If you’re using Ubuntu or a variation, such as Kubuntu or Edubuntu, then run “sudo -i” (again, without the quotation marks) to start working at the command line prompt as the root user. You will need to type in the password of the first Linux user created on your system (during installation) and press Enter after running the sud...

Improving Insurance Website Security - Restricting Access & User Roles

WordPress is the most popular and pervasive website content management platform on the market, with market share estimated by some to be over 60%. Website owners (or those responsible to maintain their Insurance WordPress sites) can and should manage user access to tasks such as writing and editing, page creation. Category creation, comment moderation, plugin and theme management, user management, by assigning specific roles to all users. WordPress Predefined Roles: Super Admin Administrator Editor Author Contributor Subscriber Role Definitions Super Admin: Allows access to all sitewide administration and features. This role should be severely limited, as it is the most powerful, and allows the user to make major site modifications. Administrator: Not as powerful as Super Admin, but still has access to all administration features within a single website. Editor: Allows users to publish and manage posts, including other users’ posts. Author: Allows the user to publish and manage th...

Alphabet/Google Becoming AI Centric to Secure Foothold & Dominate Digital User Experience

High Tech corporations have invested a lot in technologies that produce large amounts of revenue, and with the increasingly rapid advancements in technology, these corporations must invest even more in order to protect their rich revenue streams. A good example of a corporation reaching further and further into the future is Alphabet, the parent company of Google. Search engine and advertising are the cornerstones of Google revenue, and they want it to keep flowing, so Google /Alphabet has identified several areas they consider to be important in securing a high revenue future for themselves and their investors. Alphabet has spread projects and initiatives throughout Google and their other entities, and many of these initiatives point to the important role of AI in their future, and by extension, our future too. At the heart of their strategy is the idea of being AI Centric . With this approach, they anticipate maintaining a leading role with their core business (search and advertising...