Linux Administration Best Practices

Chapter 10: User and Access Management Strategies

In the Linux world it is all too easy to forget that we still have users, and they still need all of the oversight, security, and management that we would expect in the Windows or macOS worlds. Users are typically an afterthought on Linux-based operating systems as systems are often seen as just black box server workloads or bizarre appliances to which end users do not apply. This is not true, of course. Users matter on any Linux system just as they do on anything else.

In this chapter, we are going to talk about user and user access management for both servers and for end user devices. We are going to look at approaches common in the Windows world, and approaches commonly known in the UNIX world, ...