Well, you can’t really get a date with this command but it is a very useful command to know for administrative tasks as well as for automatic documentation through scripting. However, the date command’s options often baffles a lot of people (well, in my administering SuSE Linux class anyway) especially when they read about the [...]

OpenSSH is a FREE version of the SSH connectivity tools. For many users of telnet, rlogin, and ftp, they may not realize that most of the time their password is transmitted across the Internet unencrypted. With OpenSSH, it encrypts all traffic (including passwords) to effectively eliminate eavesdropping, connection hijacking, and other attacks. Besides that, OpenSSH [...]

We do sometimes forget our passwords and what more when we don’t login to that particular account regularly.  As good system administrators who automate most of the administrative tasks, we sometimes do not login to the root account often.  This is especially so for a highly reliable and robust SLES based system. Our earlier posting [...]