Q. I’ve CentOS Linux acting as router for our small community based college. I see logwatch and other cron job generating emails for root account. How do I delete those emails? I don’t want to disable email facility but just wanted to get rid of all root emails.
A. The easilst way is to empty root [...]
Q. I’d like to create my root account in Linux. How do I do it?
A. Root user is superuser on a Unix / Linux system. Root user has all rights or permissions. . The root user can do many things an ordinary user cannot do on system such as start / stop services, grant / [...]
I have just installed Ubuntu Linux. But, what is the default root password? I can only login as a normal user. How do I login as root user?
Explains Linux user account concept and related files with an example.
Q. Can you explain the role of the system administrator?
A. The person who is responsible for setting up and maintaining the system is called as the system administrator. System administrators may be members of an information technology department. Most of the following discussion also applies to network and Windows system admins.
Duties of a system administrator
The [...]