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Are you interested to know more about Google? You have a change to ask Google engineer now.
Google Moderator is a small application initially created for submitting and voting on the questions for Google’s tech talks.
“At Google, we host a large number of “tech talks”. These talks cover a wide rage of Computer Science topics like [...]

Fedora 10 is just around the corner, there is an election in the Fedora voting system for members of the art group to vote on the default theme for Fedora 10.
Key Milestones

2008-05-13
Fedora 9 Release

Fedora 10 Planning & Development Begins

2008-07-22
Fedora 10 Alpha freeze

2008-08-05
Fedora 10 Alpha release

2008-09-11
Fedora 10 Beta freeze

Fedora 10 Feature Freeze–Planning & Development [...]

Sometimes setting a good password policy is not easy and you may receive many complaint from end user especially non-IT related users. Normally they like password = password = abc123 as easy as possible.
Personally I don’t like pam_cracklib and I would preferred pam_passwdqc.
The pam_passwdqc module is a simple password strength checking module for PAM. In [...]

For some security reason you may configure SSH or any other protocol using different kind of port number on Linux server. Sometimes it’s important to know which ports are actually listern or open to the system network, it may open for network instruction or hacking.
Basically there are few methods to see which ports are [...]

My previous post talked about How To Show Linux User Password Expires. I would like to share “How to force user change password at next login on Linux“.
Option 1:
passwd command - change user password
Use the following syntax:
passwd -e

-e Force the user to [...]