USER MANAGEMENT IN LINUX:

A USER IS A PERSON WHICH HAVE A ANY UNIQUE ID TO ACCESS SOME

RESOURCES OF THE MACHINE.

COMMANDS FOR USER MANAGEMENT :

#useradd <option> username
#usermod <option> username
#userdel <option> username
#passwd <option> username
#su -username
#exit
#id username
# for i in `cat add.user` ; do useradd $i ; done (To add multiple users at a time.)

USER INFORMATION FILE :

1) UID = USER ID
2) GID = GROUP ID
3) /etc/passwd = CONTAIN USER INFO
4) /etc/shadow = CONTAIN USER PASSWORD
5) /etc/group = CONTAIN GROUP INFO
 6) /etc/gshadow = ALL GROUP PASSWORD
7) /home/username = DEFAULT HOME DIRECTORY
8) /var/spool/mail/username = DEFAULT MAIL ACCOUNT

TYPES OF USER’S IN LINUX:

TYPES OF USER’S

SYSTEM NORMAL
ROOT DEFINED USER’S

SUPER USER’S - ROOT UID - 0 GID- 0

SYSTEM DEFINED USER’S = FTP,DNS,SAMBA.. UID – 1-999 GID – 1-999

NORMAL USER’S = CUSTOM USER LIKE – KRISHAN ROHIT.. UID = 1000-60000 GID = 1000-60000

FIELDS OF /etc/passwd (7 FIELDS)

#cat /etc/passwd
FIELDS OF /etc/group (4 FIELDS)

FIELDS IN /etc/shadow (9 FIELDS)

HOW TO ADD USER AND VERIFY THEIR RECORD?

HOW TO MODIFY THE COMMENT FILED FOR ANY USER?

HOW TO CHANGE LOGIN SHELL OF USER’S?

HOW TO ADD USER WITH DIFFERENT DIRECTORY?

HOW TO CHANGE HOME DIRECTORY OF ANY EXISTING USER?

HOW TO ADD ANY USER WITH ANY SPECIAL UID OR GID?

HOW TO RENAME USER ACCOUNT NAME?

HOW TO LOCK AND UNLOCK ANY ACCOUNT?

HOW TO APPLY PASSWORD POLICY FOR ANY USER?