Linux Administration/Administrative Tasks/User Accounts

This lesson covers user accounts.

Objectives and Skills
Objectives and skills for the user accounts portion of Linux+ certification include:
 * Manage user and group accounts and related system files
 * Add, modify and remove users and groups
 * Manage user/group info in password/group databases
 * Create and manage special purpose and limited accounts
 * The following is a partial list of the used files, terms and utilities:
 * /etc/passwd
 * /etc/shadow
 * /etc/group
 * /etc/skel
 * chage
 * getent
 * groupadd
 * groupdel
 * groupmod
 * passwd
 * useradd
 * userdel
 * usermod

Activities

 * 1) Complete the tutorial IBM: Learn Linux, 101: Manage user and group accounts and related system files