I ran into an odd issue the other day when I was working on a Linux box. I noticed a number of processes in the ps output were listed with the user’s UID instead of his username. It took a little ...

When I need to work with Linux user accounts, I tend to default to the command line. Sure, there are GUIs for this purpose, but I find the command line to be more efficient and effective at this task.

I am experiencing a problem where the getent passwd command does not return any LDAP users. Other programs such as ssh, id, finger ect... all work and return data from OpenLDAP.