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Linux System Administration: User and Group Management
In this lab, you’ll practice user administration on Linux. You’ll learn to use commands like useradd and groupadd to add users, usermod to modify existing users, and userdel to delete redundant user accounts. By the end of this lab, you’ll know how to assign users to groups, set default shells for users, and manage password policies.
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Challenge
Getting Started in the Lab Environment
Here are the initial instructions and explanation of the lab environment. Read this while your environment is busy creating itself from nothing. Yes, this violates physics; we know. How fun!
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Challenge
Create Users and Groups
In this challenge, you'll learn to perform a very common task on Linux, creating users and groups.
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Modify User Attributes
In this challenge, you'll come to understand the implications of modifying user attributes.
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Manage Passwords
In this challenge, you'll learn to manage user passwords.
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The Last Challenge
Welcome to the final challenge! This is your last chance to experiment in the environment. Clicking Finish Lab will end this little world that flittered into existence just for you.
What's a lab?
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