Want to display your username in the top panel? It’s easy to do this job in Ubuntu, Fedora Workstation and other Linux with GNOME Desktop via an extension. After following this tutorial, you’ll see your username appear in the far right corner in top panel, just like the screenshot below shows you: 1. First, open […]
The passwords for user accounts often need to be changed. This is mostly done by the users themselves, but often, they have to be overridden by the administrator to control any illegitimate activity by any of the users. Because of these reasons, Linux provides a wide range of options for user account password management. We […]
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Changes to Firefox’s add-on policies that were announced on Wednesday, focus on privacy and security and will go into effect on December 1, 2021.
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An operating system user that is still a learner in the OS world can never escape the challenges the current elite users have overcome. The user impact of such challenges depends on the operating system flavor or distribution you are under. For Linux users, you might think you are facing an impossible challenge only to […]
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A group is a collection of users in Linux that shares some commonalities for the purpose of security, privilege, etc. In this tutorial, we will cover how to create groups in Linux and briefly explain how to manage them.
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usermod allows us to modify an existing user account. This tutorial will cover the fundamentals of the usermod command, as well as some of its different use cases.
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Users are generally slow to change passwords. Here’s how to nudge them into compliance with chage. And no, that’s not a typo.
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We’re all familiar with Linux’s command-line interface (CLI), which allows you to execute nearly any job you can think of by just typing commands into it. This guide shows you how to get a list of all commands, functions, and aliases that t…