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Managing users and access

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Managing users and access

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- [Instructor] On Debian as with all Linux systems, we have the ability to create separate user accounts to allow different people to log in. Setting up accounts allows users to keep their files separate from those of other users, and allows us to specify access permissions for other resources, to grant or deny users access to particular files. In fact, we already have many user accounts here on the system, most of which are designed for parts of the operating system or are designated for our certain software packages to use. But there are two users accounts we'll use in this video, root, which is the superuser, and a regular account, which is not a superuser. We set up these accounts during installation. Root can make changes to the system's configuration, but the regular user can't. I'm currently logged in to my regular user, which I can see over here on the prompt, and I can verify that with the whoami command. Let's…

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