If you’re managing a Linux server, it’s good to be ready with a number of commands that you can use to check user activity – when your users are logging in and how often, what groups they belong to, ...

ZDNET key takeaways Logging in as the root user should never be done on Linux.Using the root account could lead to ...

Linux is a multi-user environment, which means more than one user can use the system at one time. Granted, that mostly takes the form of console access (via SSH), because you can't easily have two ...

Most Linux distributions are considerably more secure than Windows out of the box. There are many reasons for that, including the inherent user and file permissions structure, the addition of ...

Your Linux users may not be raging bulls, but keeping them happy is always a challenge as it involves managing their accounts, monitoring their access rights, tracking down the solutions to problems ...

I have inherited a small LAN with a mix of Windows desktops and Linux workstations. Currently, the users have two user accounts that are completely separate, and they use a shared folder on the NAS to ...

TechRepublic has an editorial that thinks the language of Linux needs to be changed to attract more mainstream users. Language is crucial to helping new user adoption. Confusing them out of the ...