Whether your Linux box has hundreds of users or just one account for you and one for your dog it is important to understand how Linux user accounts work. There are GUI tools for this within GNOME and ...

The UID and GID are often transparent, and are assigned automatically in sequence by the account creation program. So, the user added after “fred” would have a UID of 201. Some Linux distributions ...

I've got 2 linux boxes and a Windows 10 box with various shares in an incestual cross mounting scheme. The 2 linux boxes agree on uid and gid for various users, my Windows does not. Is there an ...

If you’re administering a Linux server, chances are you have a lot of user accounts to manage and, along with these, a lot of files and settings to control. Here are some commands and issues that are ...

I've noticed that despite having idmap running and correct user/group names showing up in "ls -l", I can't modify files I own (or which have group write permission, and are owned by a group I'm a ...