Whether your Linux box has hundreds of users or just one account for you and one for your dog it is important to understand how Linux user accounts work. There are GUI tools for this within GNOME and ...

Managing user groups on Linux systems is easy, but the commands can be more flexible than you might be aware. User groups play an important role on Linux systems. They provide an easy way for a select ...

Your Linux users may not be raging bulls, but keeping them happy is always a challenge as it involves managing their accounts, monitoring their access rights, tracking down the solutions to problems ...

I'm planning on migrating a few of our Linux servers to use AD authentication via SAMBA/Winbind. Operating system will be openSUSE 11.3 x64. Our AD environment does not have UNIX extensions installed.

The UID and GID are often transparent, and are assigned automatically in sequence by the account creation program. So, the user added after “fred” would have a UID of 201. Some Linux distributions ...