Fedora™ Unleashed, 2008 Edition, Eighth Edition

Chapter 10. Managing Users

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• User Accounts

• Managing Groups

• Managing Users

• Managing Permissions

• Managing Passwords

• Granting System Administrator Privileges to Regular Users

• Disk Quotas

• Reference

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One of the most important things you need to learn while using Fedora is effective user administration. Whether you are setting up a system for use just by yourself, sharing it among a family of five, or even working with a machine that has to handle several thousand different users, it is important that you understand how to effectively assign user permissions and lock down the areas you want to protect. Equally important is the ability to fine-tune user access rights, to enable people to do what they need to do, ...