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Managing Accounts

Being able to add and remove users and groups is of primary importance to you as a system administrator if you are running a multiuser Linux system or a Linux system on a network to which many people have remote login permission. In Chapter 7, “Understanding File Properties,” you learned about users, groups, and permissions. Now you learn how to create the user and group accounts with which permissions work.

The process of adding or deleting users and groups at the command line is an easy one; the tasks at hand are accomplished with the adduser, groupadd, userdel, and groupdel commands.

Adding and Removing User Accounts

Whenever you want to give a new user access to your Linux system with his or her own set of files and login ...