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Modify local user accounts

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Modify local user accounts

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- [Instructor] In order to change a users account settings after they've been created, we'll need to use a usermod command. Most of the syntax for usermod is identical to that of useradd. Let's discuss a few of usermod's more common options. Dash d let's you change a user's home directory. We might use this if we've manually moved their home directory and need to update etc password. Dash g, and dash u options allow us to change the primary group ID as well as the users user ID. Dash capital G is for adding users to supplemental groups. Note that this is a complete list and will override their current list of groups unless we use the next option- dash a. Dash a and combination with dash capital G allows you to append people to supplemental groups. Dash l allows us to change the user's login name. Dash capital L and dash capital U allow us to lock and unlock user's accounts. Usermod also has the ability to move the…

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