Assisted Lab Configuring an Intrusion Detection System 

This is one of our favorite ones!

You are very welcome. Hopefully this can help your classmates too!

Thank you so much!

I wish we knew, our developers do a pretty good job bringing life to these videos with their skills. I’ll be sure to let them know!

"esc" should stop you from editing. afterwards you're supposed to hit the colon key then hit "wq".

Can you send us a timestamp of the video where you're having issues at?

@@o-linesecurity7109 at 8:20, that whole script, after you typed in the Pa$$w0rd, typing "Go" doesn't shoot my line to the bottom, idk what I'm doing wrong.

@@jomembawang vim is a special type of editor that needs you to hit the letter "i" in order to start typing into a file. When you hit the letter "i" you enter "insert" mode, which enables you to start typing things into the file. Now, before you hit the letter "i" you can use some of the shortcuts to navigate through a file. Such as the shortcut "Go." You want to type "Go" prior to entering "insert" mode. Therefore, you shouldn't see the word "Go" when you type it. If you do see it, this means you are in insert mode, and you don't want to be in insert mode in order to use the shortcut. Therefore, to exit insert mode you should hit your "esc" key, then type "go" to send you to the end of the line. Hopefully this helps.

@@o-linesecurity7109 hmm I think I understand, it's just when I type go (I don't see it) it just bounces me back to the same line I'm on, it doesn't push me to the bottom of everything like it does in the video

@@jomembawang Hit the "esc" key then hit "G". In other words "shift + G".

Maybe something isn't configured properly. Try to redo the lab with the walkthrough.

Appreciate that

@@youngboss6254 you’re welcome

You can save it by entering ":" and then "wq"

interesting because that's the hotkey to save your work using vim.

I agree. Ive hit the ESC a couple times and the INSERT line disappears but that its it. It doesn't save and go back to the original screen.

@@jlewis2037 it shouldn’t save after hitting “esc”. It should stop you from editing, then enter “:wq” without the quotations. That should write (w) and then quit (q).