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 ...

I am experiencing a problem where the getent passwd command does not return any LDAP users. Other programs such as ssh, id, finger ect... all work and return data from OpenLDAP.

$ 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.

Passwords are one of the most important aspects of computing. They keep our bank accounts, user profiles and computers safe (as long as we don’t reuse passwords). Just to log into our computers, most ...

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 ...