September 2004
Intermediate to advanced
640 pages
12h 53m
English
book
LPIC I Exam Cram™ 2: Linux Professional Institute Certification Exams 101 and 102
by Ross Brunson
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Chapter 12. Managing Users and Groups
Terms you’ll need to understand:
✓ | Password database |
✓ | Profile |
✓ | Session |
✓ | User account |
✓ | User environment |
Techniques you’ll need to master:
✓ | Adding users and groups |
✓ | Modifying users and groups |
✓ | Removing users and groups |
✓ | Locking or disabling accounts |
✓ | Managing password files |
✓ | Repairing password files |
The Importance of User and Group Management
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 one of the really interesting areas of system administration—supporting users and groups, enabling access, setting ...
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