I cannot tell you how many times I've had to manage user passwords in Linux without the help of a GUI app. Whether it's on a server or because I'm using SSH to access a remote machine, knowing the ...

$ sudo passwd -l tadpole The effect of this command is to insert an exclamation point as the first character in the encrypted password field in the /etc/shadow file. This is enough to keep the ...

When I need to work with Linux user accounts, I tend to default to the command line. Sure, there are GUIs for this purpose, but I find the command line to be more efficient and effective at this task.

You don't need to reinstall your whole operating system just because you forgot your Linux login. It's actually pretty easy ...

My personal project this week is to install 389 Directory Server, OpenLDAP, and ApacheDS and get a general feeling of each. I am using Scientific Linux 6.1 as the base for this which requries TLS. I ...

On older Solaris systems, you would only see a few tunable parameters for controlling passwords. MINWEEKS determined the number of weeks that a user was required to ...