Linux Administration/Administrative Tasks/User Accounts

This lesson covers user accounts.

Objectives and Skills

Objectives and skills for the user accounts portion of Linux+ certification include:

• Manage user and group accounts and related system files
  • Add, modify and remove users and groups
  • Manage user/group info in password/group databases
  • Create and manage special purpose and limited accounts
  • The following is a partial list of the used files, terms and utilities:
    • /etc/passwd
    • /etc/shadow
    • /etc/group
    • /etc/skel
    • chage
    • getent
    • groupadd
    • groupdel
    • groupmod
    • passwd
    • useradd
    • userdel
    • usermod

Activities

1. Complete the tutorial IBM: Learn Linux, 101: Manage user and group accounts and related system files

References

Linux Administration/Administrative Tasks

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