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Ch-5-Lab: Group Administration: Objective: Pre-Requisite: Topology

1. This document provides instructions for performing various administrative tasks relating to user groups in Linux, such as creating a new group, modifying group properties, adding and removing users from groups, and deleting a group. 2. It includes commands for adding a new group, assigning a password to a group, changing the name of an existing group, adding single or multiple users to a group, adding a user as a secondary or primary group member, and removing a user from a group. 3. Verification steps are provided to check that each change was successfully made by grepping the /etc/group or /etc/gshadow files.

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Ch-5-Lab: Group Administration: Objective: Pre-Requisite: Topology

1. This document provides instructions for performing various administrative tasks relating to user groups in Linux, such as creating a new group, modifying group properties, adding and removing users from groups, and deleting a group. 2. It includes commands for adding a new group, assigning a password to a group, changing the name of an existing group, adding single or multiple users to a group, adding a user as a secondary or primary group member, and removing a user from a group. 3. Verification steps are provided to check that each change was successfully made by grepping the /etc/group or /etc/gshadow files.

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CH-5-LAB: GROUP ADMINISTRATION

OBJECTIVE:
To create a new group and modify an existing group's properties
PRE-REQUISITE:
Machine with Linux Installed
TOPOLOGY:

1. To add new group Syntax:


[root@localhost ~]# groupadd <groupname>
[root@localhost ~]# groupadd zoomtech

Verification:
[root@localhost ~]# grep zoomtech /etc/group
zoomtech:x:1000:

2. To assign password to a group

Syntax:
[root@ local host ~]# gpasswd <groupname>
[root@localhost ~]# gpasswd zoomtech
Changing the password for group zoomtech New Password:
Re-enter new password:

Verification:
[root@localhost ~]# grep zoomtech /etc/gshadow
zoomtech :
$6$KoqFT/.FII$TKrAHtcPHa7iEvOc/YG7AvBeELtngSRZWWzxxOODc/rOKlNyi5wfe
kM wqdl0HNz5.NDCAIty6wghkCC2ld6J70::
3. Changing the name of an existing group (from zoomtech to zoomgroup)

Syntax:
[root@ local host ~]# groupmod -n <new_name> <old_name>
[root@localhost ~]# groupmod -n zoomgroup zoomtech

Verification:
[root@localhost ~]# grep zoomgroup /etc/group
zoomgroup:x:1000:

7/. To add single user in a group


Note: Before you add user into group create a user [root@localhost ~]# useradd jack

Syntax:
[root@localhost ~]# gpasswd -a <username> <groupname>
[root@localhost ~]# gpasswd -a jack zoomgroup
Adding user Jack to group zoomgroup

Verification:
[root@localhost ~]# grep zoomgroup /etc/group
zoomgroup:x:1000:jack

5. To add multiple users in a group


Note: Before you add user into group create some users
[root@localhost ~]# useradd wiliam [root@localhost ~]# useradd sam

Syntax:
[root@localhost~]# gpasswd -M <userl>,<user2>,<user3> <group_name>
[root@localhost ~]# gpasswd -M jack,sam,wiliam zoomgroup

Verification:
[root@localhost ~]# grep zoomgroup /etc/group
zoomgroup:x:1000:jack;sam;wiliam

6. To add user in a group as a Secondary member Note: Before you add user into
group create a user [root@localhost ~]# useradd ravi

Sy ntax:
[root@localhost ~]# usermod -G <groupname> <username>
[root@localhost ~]# usermod -G zoomgroup ravi

Verification:
[root@localhost ~]# grep zoomgroup /etc/group
zoomgroup:x:1000:jack;sam,wiliam,ravi

7. To add user in a group as a primary member


Note: Before you add user into group create a user
[root@localhost ~]# useradd Ali

Syntax:
[root@localhost ~]# usermod -g <groupname> <username>
[root@local host ~]# usermod -g zoomgroup Ali

Verification:
[root@localhost ~]# su - Ali [Ali@localhost~]$ id
uid=1004(Ali) gid=1000 (zoomgroup) groups=1000(zoomgroup)
context=unconfined_u:unconfined_r:unconfined_t:s0-s0:c0.cl023

8. Removing user wiliam from zoomgroup

Syntax:
[root@localhost ~]# gpasswd -d <user_name> <group_name>
[root@localhost ~]# gpasswd -d wiliam zoomgroup

Verification:
[root@localhost ~]# grep zoomgroup /etc/group
zoomgroup^lOOCkjackjSarrvavi

Deleting a group Syntax:


[root@localhost ~]# groupdel <group_name>
[root@localhost ~]# groupdel zoomgroup
Note: If group contains any primary member, it cannot be deleted unless the gid of
that member is changed.
Verification:
[root@local host ~]# grep zoomgroup /etc/group
No group details will be displayed.
END

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