There are times when locking a Linux user account is necessary and times when you need to reverse that action. Here are commands for managing account access and what's behind them. If you are ...

A fundamental of file systems since their inception has been their locking mechanisms. These exist so that different users and applications working on the same file (or region of a file) ...

We have a need for users in distributed locations to work on large multimedia files. Right now these files are available to users in a big CIFS filetree. Although high-bandwidth VPN connections are ...