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 ...

Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. The usermod command is short for user modification, and, as the name implies, allows you to modify various aspects of a user account. For a Linux ...

In the vast landscape of operating systems, Linux stands as a bastion of flexibility and security. Central to its robust security model is the meticulous management of user accounts and permissions.

The usermod command is a tool for updating details about an existing user account in your system. It's kind of like editing the "profile" of a Linux user. With it, you can adjust anything from the ...

I'll get the questions out quick:<BR><BR>What I would like to know is how do I do centralized Linux accounts? And, is there an easy method to integrate those accounts seamlessly with Windows? If so, ...

Hi All,<BR><BR>I've recently been rebuilding some of the PCs on my home network and upgrading them from OpenSUSE 10.1/SUSE 9.3 to OpenSUSE 10.1 on them (which I did by reinastalling the OS rather than ...

Linux is a multi-user operating system. What does that mean? Like all good operating systems, you can have multiple user accounts on one machine. You can also have more than one user logged in at once ...

Disk quotas are a mechanism for limiting the amount of disk space and the number of files (inodes) that a user or a group of users can consume. These limits prevent individual users or services from ...

A couple of weeks ago, I took BEA to task for insinuating that the open source community wasn’t capable of delivering good management tools for its software. A few readers leapt to the defense: BEA is ...