Users and Groups

This chapter provides introductions and tutorial on user and group management. Topics include commands to add and remove groups; commands to associate users with primary and supplementary groups; commands to file group ownership and group access permissions; commands to add and delete users; run 'sudo' command to gain 'root' permision.

Manage User Groups

Group Access Permissions on Files

"sudo" Command and Privilege

"adduser/usermod/userdel" - Commands to Manage Users

System Users and Groups

Add Users and Groups Manually

Takeaways:

Table of Contents

 About This Book

 Introduction to Linux Systems

 Cockpit - Web Portal for Administrator

 Process Management

 Files and Directories

Users and Groups

 File Systems

 Block Devices and Partitions

 LVM (Logical Volume Manager)

 Installing CentOS

 SELinux - Security-Enhanced Linux

 Network Connection on CentOS

 Internet Networking Tools

 SSH Protocol and ssh/scp Commands

 Software Package Manager on CentOS - DNF and YUM

 vsftpd - Very Secure FTP Daemon

 Postfix - Mail Transport Agent (MTA)

 Dovecot - IMAP and POP3 Server

 Email Client Tools - Mail User Agents (MUA)

 LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol)

 Administrative Tasks

 References

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