My personal project this week is to install 389 Directory Server, OpenLDAP, and ApacheDS and get a general feeling of each. I am using Scientific Linux 6.1 as the base for this which requries TLS. I ...

While users can change their own passwords, select a different default shell and make changes to their environment settings (like their search paths), they cannot—at least not without root ...

special file called /etc/shadow. When a shadowing system is in use, the passwd file remains readable but it doesn’t contain passwords anymore. Instead, the password field is filled with a placeholder.

On older Solaris systems, you would only see a few tunable parameters for controlling passwords. MINWEEKS determined the number of weeks that a user was required to ...