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Challenge: Users and accounts

Challenge: Users and accounts

(upbeat music) - [Instructor] You've now come to the end of the users and accounts chapter. This challenge will test your knowledge and understanding of what you've learned. For this challenge, I'm going to create a fictitious scenario. Your company has hired a temporary software developer named Steve for a three-month contract. Steve is a former Unix administrator turned software developer. Steve will be working with Sue and Taylor as developers on a secret project but will also be providing additional system administration services to your company. This means you will need a username, Steve, with a user ID of 1100 within the range in which your company places its developers. And primary group ID, also 1100. His home directory should be /home/Steve. Since Steve came from Unix, his default shell should be the korn shell. Steve will also be administrating the development host and he will need admin privileges using sudo. You will not need to configure sudo for this challenge. Since…

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