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 ...
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 ...
My personal project this week is to install 389 Directory Server, OpenLDAP, and ApacheDS and get a general feeling of each. I am using Scientific Linux 6.1 as the base for this which requries TLS. I ...
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 ...
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 ...