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 ...

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.

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.

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 ...