July 2000
Beginner
446 pages
12h 53m
English
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Unix Password Files
| http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi is where the FreeBSD Project provides access to the online manual pages for *BSD and other Unix variants. This is a handy way to compare the file formats and user administration commands (useradd, et al.) for several operating systems. |
| Practical Unix & Internet Security, 2nd Edition, by Simson Garfinkel and Gene Spafford (O’Reilly, 1999), is an excellent place to start for information about password files. |
NT User Administration
| http://Jenda.Krynicky.cz is another site with useful Win32 modules applicable to user administration. |
| http://windows.microsoft.com/windows2000/en/server/help/, from the Windows 2000 online help. (Navigate to the Active Directory→Concepts→Understanding Active Directory→Understanding Groups section.) This is a good overview of the new Windows 2000 group mechanisms. |
| http://www.activestate.com/support/mailing_lists.htm hosts the Perl-Win32-Admin and Perl-Win32-Users mailing lists. Both lists and their archives are invaluable resources for Win32 programmers. |
| Win32 Perl Programming: The Standard Extensions, by Dave Roth (Macmillan Technical Publishing, 1999) is currently the best reference for Win32 Perl module programming. |
| Windows NT User Administration, by Ashley J. Meggitt and Timothy D. Ritchey (O’Reilly, 1997). |
| http://www.mspress.com are the publishers of the Microsoft NT Resource kit. They also offer a subscription services that provides access to the latest RK utilities. ... |
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