If you’re administering a Linux server, chances are you have a lot of user accounts to manage and, along with these, a lot of files and settings to control. Here are some commands and issues that are ...

When you first sign into a Linux server to take over the role of managing it, there are a number of things that you will need to know right away about the system’s user accounts – such as where they ...

Why shadow passwords? Simply put, the shadow password scheme addresses the major shortcoming of the original Unix password-handling scheme, the fact that the password list was stored as a ...