Chapter 6
Users, Groups, and Permissions
In Chapter 4, the idea of protection and security was introduced. In order to support these operating system requirements, computer accounts are created. Each account comes with certain access rights. These rights can be altered in operating systems such as Windows and Linux such that the owner of a resource can dictate who can use that resource. This chapter examines user accounts, account creation, groups and group creation, passwords, and permissions.
The learning objectives of this chapter are to
- Describe the role of the user account and the group.
- Introduce the mechanisms to create and maintain user and group accounts in Windows and Linux.
- Explain how to change file and directory permissions in ...
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