passwd

Hi! Recently faced with problem on Astra Linux: GRUB is waiting during boot about 2 minutes and prints "db_root: cannot open: /etc/target" then Linux system asks me login and password. When I try to log in as root or regular user system says me that login is incorrect. I cannot use passwd on...

Hi everyone, I found really odd that by default a lot of distribution set the /etc/passwd as 644. (I rather prefer 640) I found curious that any user account can list the full list of user registered on the machine.. :oops: If I'll set /etc/passwd as 640 is there a way to see which account...

Been wanting to learn Linux for a long time. I was given an Unbunto 12.04 machine that no one could get into to play with. I have srtarted the recovery mode and was able to change the root password. During that process I used mount -o ,rw /. I was successful. However, there is not a root option...