Various Linux user groups took booths at the Linux Expo this week, staking out their territory in the manner of Monty Python's Judean People's Front and the People's Front of Judea. Only in the Linux ...

Linux is a multi-user environment, which means more than one user can use the system at one time. Granted, that mostly takes the form of console access (via SSH), because you can't easily have two ...

The original idea of user groups was to help professional and/or people of common interest in some area or product e.g. Linux, MySQL, PHP etc. This was because the people held the knowledge and it was ...

On Linux, the umask defines how new files and directories inherit access rights. Linux uses your current umask value to ...

The usermod command is a tool for updating details about an existing user account in your system. It's kind of like editing the "profile" of a Linux user. With it, you can adjust anything from the ...

Khang Tran, Brian Kiralyfalvi and Minh Tran try out Linux games Saturday at Exploration Place. The computers were run by WuLUG, the Wichita State University Linux Users Group, which is trying to spur ...

Your Linux users may not be raging bulls, but keeping them happy is always a challenge as it involves managing their accounts, monitoring their access rights, tracking down the solutions to problems ...

For the past several years, Microsoft has been watching, and reacting, as open-source advocates around the world have encouraged the adoption of the Linux operating system. Now the uprising has ...