by Satish Kumar | Jan 20, 2021 | Linux
Now that we know how to create (and delete) user accounts on our server, we are well on our way to being able to manage our users. But where exactly is this information stored? We know that users store their personal files in /home, but is there some kind of database...
by Satish Kumar | Jan 19, 2021 | Ubuntu
Creating users in Ubuntu can be done with one of two commands: adduser and useradd. This can be a little confusing at first, because both of these commands do the same thing (in different ways) and are named very similarly. I’ll go over the useradd command first and...
by Satish Kumar | Jan 18, 2021 | Linux
When it comes to a server, users are essential—without users to serve, then there’s no real need for a server in the first place. The subject of user management itself within the world of IT is in and of itself quite vast. Entire books have been written on particular...
by Satish Kumar | Jan 17, 2021 | Linux
In this tutorial, I will show how to set up secure public key authentication. Getting ready You might need root privileges for certain tasks. How to do it… Follow these steps to set up public key authentication: Add a new user. You can skip this step if you have...
by Satish Kumar | Jan 16, 2021 | BASH
At one point, we had already talked about checking to see if strings inside of a file were unique and if we could sort them, but we haven’t yet performed a similar operation on files. However, before diving in, let’s make some assumptions about what constitutes a...