CHAPTER 13

Managing Users

IN THIS CHAPTER

User    Accounts

Managing    Groups

Managing    Users

Managing    Passwords

Granting    System  Administrator   Privileges  to  Regular Users

Disk    Quotas

Related Ubuntu  Commands

References

System administrators would have a boring, but much easier, life without

users. In reality, it’s impossible to have a system with absolutely no users, so
it is important that you learn how to effectively manage and administer your
users as they work with your system. Whether you are creating a single user
account or modifying a group that holds hundreds of user accounts, the
fundamentals of user administration are the same.

User management and administration includes allocating and managing
/home directories, putting in place good password policies, and applying
effective security policies that includes things such as disk quotas and file and
directory access permissions. This chapter covers all these areas as well as
some of the different types of users that you are likely to find on a typical
Linux system.

User Accounts

You normally find three types of users on Linux systems: the super user, the