Linux – Users and Groups – Part 1

Ok.. Lets start with creating a group called "dba" and create user "oracle" belongs to "dba" group. We could see that from "/etc/passwd" that oracle user id is 1521 and primary group id is 5000. But we haven't set the password yet for "oracle" user. If we watch closely "/etc/shadow" password the second column is !! which …

AWS Autoscaling – Min Desired Max

As mentioned here : https://stackoverflow.com/questions/36270873/aws-ec2-auto-scaling-groups-i-get-min-and-max-but-whats-desired-instances-lim MIN: This will be the minimum number of instances that can run in your auto scale group. If your scale down CloudWatch alarm is triggered, your auto scale group will never terminate instances below this number. DESIRED: If you trip a CloudWatch alarm for a scale up event, then it …