This is a post on improving your productivity when you are working with BASH shell/terminal. BASH shell is having many inbuilt capabilities such as history, command chaining and BASH shortcut. In this post we will see what are BASH shortcuts and their usage. Frequently used shortcut keys Ctrl+a – Bring back the courser to start of the bash prompt(…)
How to delete user account in Linux?
How to delete user account in Redhat/Ubuntu Linux? Deleting user account in Linux is as a task to remove user login credentials from system configuration files such as /etc/passwd, /etc/shadow and files which are owned by that particular user from the Linux server. Here we are going to see on how to delete a user and(…)
How to unlock an user account in Linux?
How to unlock a user account in Linux? Some times on Linux boxes the user account will be locked due to issues such as wrong password entry, account expiry etc. In this post we will see how to unlock user account with different commands. Example1: Check if the password is disabled by viewing /etc/shadow file(…)
How to lock user account in Linux?
How to lock user account in Linux? Some times its required to lock user account so that he can not login to the machine. This is done for security reasons so that unauthorized users are not allowed to login. Locking user account can be done in many ways. Below are some ways you can disable an user(…)
How to delete user password in Linux?
How to delete or remove user password in Linux? Some times you require to set passwordless logins to a user for auto logins, shell scripting so that you no need to provide any password. This can be achieved by using passwd command with -d option which deletes already assigned password. passwd -d username Example: passwd(…)
How to disable or lock password for a Linux user?
Q. How can I disable or lock a password for a User in Linux? Some times its required to lock user not to login to the machine. This can be done by using passwd command. this command should be executed by root or super user. Execute below command lock a user. Syntax: passwd -l username(…)
How to set password to a user account in Linux?
In this post we will see how to set a password for an user. Once the user is created we have to set a password for the account, if we do not set it user will not be able to login. Below steps shows the steps in setting a password for an user. Step 1(…)
how to add new user in Linux?
How to add user in Linux This is a small “how-to” on adding users in Linux. As Linux is multi-user supporting operating system so that multiple users can login symeltiniously login and do their job. Linux administrators some time require to create user accounts for a project so that the users can login to the(…)
Up coming posts on DNS(Domain Name System/Server) in Linux
We are very much happy to announce that we started posting on DNS client and Server stuff on our blog for this month(Jan 2011). We already have some minor existing stuff related to DNS and troubleshooting it. Below are quick links to our existing DNS Server/Client stuff http://www.linuxnix.com/tag/dns-servers http://www.linuxnix.com/tag/dns Some of the DNS topics which are going(…)
Wishing you Happy and prosperous New year 2012
Dear Friends/Readers, I take this opportunity to convey our sincere thanks to each one of you personally for your support and co-operation for several years. I request you to continue the same support and refer more people to our blog to grow bigger. We are very happy and personally congratulate each one of you for yourr(…)