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When you are using Vim, you want to know three things - getting in, moving about and getting out. Of course, while doing these three basic operations, you…
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Vsftpd is a popular FTP server for Unix/Linux systems. For thoes unaware of the vsftpd ftp server, note that this is not just another ftp server, but a ma…
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In a multi-user environment like Linux, every file is owned by a user and a group. There can be others as well who may be allowed to work with the file. W…

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