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Manage User Account

06. Manage User Account

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 A user is another name of an account capable

of logging into a computer.


 A user is a individual who uses the available
hardware and software resources.
 1. System User (Privilege/Administrative)
 2. Normal User (Non-privilege/Secondary)
 It is created by OS automatically.
◦ Eg.
 Root or Administrator
 It is created by privilege/Administrator user
◦ Eg
◦ Student,Sachin,Ajay
 User Properties - /etc/passwd
 Password Properties - /etc/shadow
#useradd ajay
#grep ajay /etc/passwd

ajay:x:1001:1001: :/home/ajay:/bin/bash
#passwd ajay
#grep ajay /etc/shadow

ajay:@s$!1bc25f%:18002:0:99999:7: : :
#su ajay
#exit

Or

Press “ctrl+d” Key


#userdel ajay
#userdel -r ajay
We can modify existing user account property
with following command
#usermod -u 2010 ajay
#mkdir /mnt/india
#usermod -d /mnt/india ajay
#usermod -c “manager” ajay
#usermod -l devgn ajay
#usermod -s /sbin/nologin ajay
#usermod -L ajay
#usermod -U ajay
#usermod -e 2020-02-15 ajay

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