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Authentication is an important part of the operations systems like Linux. As Linux operating systems are multi-user systems and run a lot of services and complex scenarios they generally need robust and easy to implement complex scenarios authentication systems. Linux Pluggable Authentication a.k.a. Linux PAM is a very robust and dynamic authentication system. In this … Read more
access.conf is the configuration file used to logins to the Linux or Unix systems. This file is locate at /etc/security/ path. With this file logins of users, groups, hosts, tty, network are defined to allows or disallowed status. Each line specifies a rule. Syntax permission:users/groups:origins Show Services Using Access.conf Allow Rule As we stated before each line … Read more
limits.conf configuration file is used to limit user, domain, process-related metrics. Limits.conf is related to pam_limits module. limits.conf Configuration File There is a configuration file named limits.conf and located at /etc/security/ . The default content of this file is as below. We can see that there are different columns named domain , type , item and value . #<domain> … Read more