Chapter 6. The User Environment

Terms you'll need to understand:

  • User and group accounts

  • admintool command

  • Password aging

  • Initialization files and templates

  • System profile

Techniques you'll need to master:

  • Creating and deleting user accounts

  • Administering passwords

  • Creating and deleting group accounts

  • Using the admintool command

  • Customizing initialization files and templates

  • Logging in and out of the system

  • Identifying and monitoring users

This chapter covers the Part I exam objectives that address User Administration. I'll discuss administering user and group accounts, the initialization files associated with user accounts, logging in and out of a system, and identifying the users currently logged in to the system.

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