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Color text output on bash scripts

Users who have been using Linux for awhile often learn that creating a basic script is a good way to run multiple, often-repeated commands. Adding a little color to scripts can additionally provide nice feedback. This can be done in a fairly straight-forward way by using the tput command. A common way of doing this […]

Renewing Ovirt Engine certificates before they expire

In Red Hat Virtualization earlier than version 4.4 SP1, all certificates followed a 398 day lifetime. Starting in Red Hat Virtualization version 4.4 SP1, the self-signed internal certificates between hypervisors and the Manager follow a five year lifetime. Certificates visible to web browsers still follow the standard 398 day lifetime and must be renewed once […]

How To Create a New User and Grant Permissions in MySQL

How to Create a New User Let’s start by making a new user within the MySQL shell: CREATE USER ‘newuser’@’localhost’ IDENTIFIED BY ‘password’; Sadly, at this point newuser has no permissions to do anything with the databases. In fact, if newuser even tries to login (with the password, password), they will not be able to […]