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 ...
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 ...
This week, I will introduce two fundamental concept of the Linux process model: user ids (uid) and group ids (gid). Then, I will exemplify how to use the relevant library functions for setting and ...