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 ...

Why shadow passwords? Simply put, the shadow password scheme addresses the major shortcoming of the original Unix password-handling scheme, the fact that the password list was stored as a ...

One way to get a little more clarity on this is to look at the permissions with the stat command. The fourth line of stat’s output displays the file permissions both in octal and string format: $ stat ...