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This article will teach you how create user accounts with the configuration management software Ansible. You will learn how to create users with passwords, SSH-only users and users with temporary passwords that must be changed. Some background on passwords on Linux The file /etc/passwd hints at passwords, but stores only an “x” or other character where the password has been stored historically. The real passwords are stored in the file /etc/shadow, in a hashed format.

I had a big, automatically-generated HTML file without newlines and wanted to see all occurrences of a certain image name. Using the command grep my_image.png just outputs the whole file - not useful! While writing the question to the unix section of StackExchange, I found a way to do it with grep: grep -oE ".{30}my_image.{30}" This command yielded the desired result: Each occurrence on a separate line, with 30 characters before and after.