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Create user The id command prints information for a certain user. Use it like this: # id username To create a new user: # useradd –home /home/username username # passwd username If you want to activate the user you have to assign a password, because initially the user account is in disabled Continue Reading
/etc/shadow file stores actual password in encrypted format for user’s account with additional properties related to user password /etc/shadow File techwithguru: $2gsdhghj2&ghj$kjh9&njsdj:15106:0:99999:7::: User name : It is your login name Password: It your encrypted password. The password should be minimum 6-8 characters long including special characters/digits Last password change (lastchanged): Days Continue Reading
/etc/group is a text file which defines the groups to which users belong under Linux and UNIX operating system. In Unix and Linux distributions multiple users can be categorized into groups. In Linux file system permissions are organized into three distinct classes, user, group, and others. /etc/group file cdrom:x:24:techwithguru group_name: Continue Reading
/etc/passwd is a text file that stores user account information which is required during login. It gives useful information like user ID, group ID, home directory, shell, etc. The /etc/passwd contains one line for each user. All fields are separated by a colon (:) symbol. Total seven fields as follows. /etc/passwd Continue Reading
When you are using the terminal windows of a linux flavor, It will record all the commands that you type on the terminal window which makes it easy to retrieve and reuse them. By default, up to 500 commands that you have used are saved into a hidden file (~/.bash_history). You can access Continue Reading
Open Terminal Switch to root user [root@server~/]$ su Download Google Chrome – 32 bit – [root@server~/]# wget https://dl.google.com/linux/direct/google-chrome-stable_current_i386.rpm – 64 bit – [root@server~/]# wget https://dl.google.com/linux/direct/google-chrome-stable_current_x86_64.rpm Install Dependencies [root@server~/]# yum -y install redhat-lsb Install Google Chrome – 32 bit – [root@server~/]# rpm -Uvh google-chrome-stable_current_i386.rpm – 64 bit – [root@server~/]# rpm -Uvh Continue Reading
If you don’t like command line that much, you can use the graphical front end of yum called yumex. yum install yumex After successfully installing, type yumex in the terminal and you will be asked to enter the password for the root permission. After that, You can view the updates, Continue Reading
The problem is you cannot directly install .rpm extension installation file in Ubuntu. Thus, we need to convert .rpm into .deb so that we can install the file. We have to use a software called Alien to convert .rpm into .deb. sudo apt-get install alien Then within this directory type this command Continue Reading
There is also available a free GUI to use with Alien called simply ‘Package Converter’ written in Python by Foxoman. NOTE : Need to Install Alian First, Read How to Install Package Converter Alien in Centos6/RHEL Once Alien is installed as above, download package-converter-3002-2noarch for any architecture, and install it with $ sudo Continue Reading
Alien is useful for converting a package which you might find elusive in rpm format, from a deb, slack or other package. First you have to Download the Alian rpm package for Centos/RHEL 6, Click the follwing link to download the package alien-8.81-2.noarch.rpm Install it by using the command below, sudo rpm Continue Reading
