While users can change their own passwords, select a different default shell and make changes to their environment settings (like their search paths), they cannot—at least not without root ...

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 ...

Authorization is the process of deciding if entity X is allowed to have access to resource Y. Determining the identity of X is the job of the authentication process. One task of authorization in ...

I have a RedHat 9.0 system and have set up a shell script that uses /bin/bash for it's execution. I have set up a user for the system that is presented with this script upon login. The script is ...

One troubleshooting tale doesn’t usually fall on the heels of another, but this one fell into my lap. A systems administrator at another site and long-time e-chum had run into some bizarre password ...