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Posted by Simon Larsén in Linux
If you open a man page on a *NIX system (such as a Linux distro), you'll
always see a number next to the subject of the man page. Like GIT(1),
SUDO(8) or open(n). What's that thing in parentheses? To cut a long
story short, it's the section …
Posted by Simon Larsén in Linux
On any Linux distribution, there's a file located at /etc/passwd. This file
contains information about users that exist on the system, including their
username, user id, group id and more. In this short article, I'll outline the
structure of the /etc/passwd file, and also illuminate why it doesn't …