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 ...

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 ...

Managing user groups on Linux systems is easy, but the commands can be more flexible than you might be aware. User groups play an important role on Linux systems. They provide an easy way for a select ...

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 ...

we have Okta as our single source of truth for authn/authz for a small HPC lab. we're trying to get SSSD set up to auth against it for logins, but Okta's LDAP interface intentionally has no uidNumber ...