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System basics: User and group management

System basics: User and group management - Linux Tutorial

From the course: Linux Tips

System basics: User and group management

- [Instructor] On a system where more than one human or service needs to operate, we need to be able to separate and control access. On Linux, we do that by defining users and groups. Users include humans who either need to either file separate and secure from others and also services and system tasks that need particular access or need to be limited in what they can access for security reasons. Groups are collections of these users that need to be related to each other in some way such as administrators or as users who can access particular folder uses and so on. User and group management on Linux is a huge topic and we have courses on the subject here in the library, but in this episode, I want to give you a quick look at how the management works and some tools to be familiar with before you take a deeper dive. The system keeps track of users in the file ETC password. Let's take a look at that. There's a lot of lines here. Each line is a user account on the system. Though I have…

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