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CompTIA Linux+ XK0-004 Cert Guide
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CompTIA Linux+ XK0-004 Cert Guide

by William “Bo” Rothwell, Ross Brunson
November 2019
Intermediate to advanced
896 pages
21h 46m
English
Pearson IT Certification
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Chapter 12. User and Group Management

This chapter covers the following topics:

  • Creating users and groups

  • Modifying users and groups

  • Deleting users and groups

  • Querying users and groups

  • Setting and managing quotas

  • User profiles

  • Important files and file contents

This chapter covers the following objective:

  • Objective 2.2: Given a scenario, manage users and groups.

The importance of user and group administration cannot be emphasized enough. Your system is a target, and users are the bullets in the gun. All an attacker has to do is get a user to give the attacker his username or password, and she can attempt penetration.

This chapter covers some interesting areas of system administration: supporting users and groups, enabling access, setting ...

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