If you’re a Unix admin, it helps to know how password aging is managed and how you can determine when a password was last changed or force a change in the near future. The key to understanding how ...

2014, rear-Neukirchen's engineers is a hacker friend of Mr. Thompson, a group of developers of the University of California, Berkeley is a software group that has been developed and distributed BSD ...

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 ...

When organizations stitch together sudo and other tools as part of a fragmented approach to manage Unix/Linux privileged access, it almost invariably results in dangerous security gaps and management ...

We have a new domain controller running samba 3.0.4. Be sure to get the new 3.0.4 rpms from suse since the 3.0.2 default install has an annoying NTLM password encryption bug.<BR><BR>It works fine ...

Attaching a remote drive or directory on a Windows box is called “drive mapping” though the process is essentially the same as what we call mounting in the Unix world. While I rarely spend any ...