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If you are looking for simple password management in Unix, pass maybe the answer. It utilizes GPG to encrypt the stored passwords. It stores the encrypted passwords as text files in a tree of directories. Each directory can maintain a separate GPG key for encrypting the passwords stored inside it. How easy is it? The following command shows how we can store a password and set AWS/access-key-id as the variable name to access it in the future. pass insert AWS/access-key-id The previous command will automatically create a directory named AWS inside the  ~/.password-store  directory which is the default location of pass storage. It also creates a file named access-key-id.gpg inside the ~/.password-store/AWS directory. To access the value we can call the following command. pass AWS/access-key-id There are some steps we need to run for utilizing the tool. Install pass using package manager Create a GPG key pair record Initialize the pass storage wit...

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Ansible is a reliable configuration management tool. It is shipped with a lot of modules including those provided by the communities. Some modules are essential and come in very handy in everyday tasks. Ansible is pushed-based and works by generating a Python script that will be run on the target server. It means the target server is required to have Python which is also commonly shipped in any Linux distros. package The module is used to manage packages in the target host. It is like running apt , yum , or aptitude . The following snippet is an example of its usage to install the Nginx package using the package manager. tasks: - name: Install Nginx package: name: nginx state: present update_cache: True file It is used to manage files, symlinks, links, or folders on the target host. These are the two examples. tasks: - name: Create a directory file: path: "/home/luki/mydir" state: directory mode: 0750 - name: C...

I've ever gotten stuck on updating the VSCode server on my remote server because of an unstable connection between my remote server and visualstudio.com that host the updated server source codes. The download and update process failed over and over so I couldn't remotely access my remote files through VSCode. The solution is by downloading the server source codes through a host with a stable connection which in my case I downloaded from a cloud VPS server. Then I transfer the downloaded source codes as a compressed file to my remote server through SCP. Once the file had been on my remote sever, I extracted them and align the configuration. The more detailed steps are as follows. First, we should get the commit ID of our current VSCode application by clicking on the About option on the Help menu. The commit ID is a hexadecimal number like  92da9481c0904c6adfe372c12da3b7748d74bdcb . Then we can download the compressed server source codes as a single file from the host. ...