UNIX Hints & Hacks

Chapter 5. Account Management

• 5.1 User Account Names

• 5.2 Passwords

• 5.3 UID

• 5.4 Group IDs and /etc/group

• 5.5 GECOS Field

• 5.6 Home Directories

• 5.7 Shells and the Password File

• 5.8 Configuring an Account

• 5.9 User Account Startup Files

• 5.10 Using Aliases

• 5.11 MS-DOS Users

• 5.12 Changing Shells

• 5.13 Finding My Display

• 5.14 Copy Files to Multiple Home Directories

• 5.15 Kill an Account

• 5.16 Nulling the Root Password Without vi

After the system boots into a multiuser state, this is where it all starts: You cannot get into a system without an account. You all know by now that this is the way of UNIX. Other operating systems have recently adopted this capability. You also know that there are user accounts and root accounts, both with different ...