All my local Linux user accounts will be able to log in to my Samba server and access share. How do I restrict access to particular users or network subnet such as 192.168.2.1/24?
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user accounts
How do I check the existing Linux / UNIX users and groups under Linux / UNIX operating system?
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Q. How do I Move or migrate user accounts to from old Linux server a new Cent OS Linux server including mails? This new system a fresh installation.
A. You can migrate users from old Linux server to new Linux sever with standard commands such as tar, awk, scp and others. This is also [...]
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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 [...]
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The pw utility is a command-line utility for the FreeBSD system user and group files, allowing the superuser an easy to use and standardized way of adding, modifying and removing users and groups. Same utility provides ability to locking or unlocking FreeBSD user accounts.
FreeBSD locking an account command
Syntax:
pw lock {username}
Example
Lock user account named vivek. Login [...]
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When you try to access MySQL database server from client such as mysql or even programming language such as php or perl you need a user account. MySQL has sophisticated user management system that controls who can access server and from which client system. It uses special tables in mysql database. In order to create [...]
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