rhcsa | user and group management

Objective of this part:

• What is a group? 
• Group management 
• User management 
• How to assign password to users? 
• How to force user to change password on next logon?

rhcsa | user and group management
What is group?
 

We can say a group is a collection of users. Users are collected together with a name and the name is group. Group is actually for giving some specific permission.

Let us consider a group name “dba” and in this group we have some users like oracle, user1, user2 etc.

This group dba can give some permission to users and this is the concept of group. Hope you clear. If anything else then please feel free to comment below

 

rhcsa | user and group management
Group Management

          We have a group file and location of this group file is following below…
          [root@reyaz ~]# cd /etc/
          [root@reyaz etc]# ls -l group
          -rw-rw-r-- 1 appsdba dba 1008 Feb 11 12:02 group

To open this group file and to see all group in this file please use this below command

[root@reyaz etc]# cat group

From above picture we see a group named “dba” and there are 2 user “appsdba” and “oracle”. Please note that there is a number 1002 and it a group ID of “dba”

 

Groups add:

                Now we will create a group and for this I will use the linux command “groupadd”

    [root@reyaz etc]# groupadd test1

    [root@reyaz etc]# groupadd test2

after creating group you can check them by using the previous command .Given below again.

  [root@reyaz etc]# cat group

Groups delete:

                Now we will delete a group and for this I will use the linux command “groupadel”

    [root@reyaz etc]# groupdel test1

    [root@reyaz etc]# groupdel test2

rhcsa | user and group management 
User Management:

               

 At first we will see all the users are present in this system and their storage  location.

[root@reyaz ~]# cd /etc/

[root@reyaz etc]# cat passwd

 

 

Create User

                We can create a user by using below command

                 [root@reyaz etc]# useradd user10

                But we can create a user with some attribute also. See below

                 [root@reyaz etc]# useradd -u6001 -d /home/user10 -s /bin/bash user10

                          

 After creating user with some attribute you can check by using this command
                        [root@reyaz etc]# cat passwd
 

User lock:

                To lock a user use below command

                [root@reyaz ~]# usermod -L user1

 

 And to unlock a user please use below command

[root@reyaz ~]# usermod -U user1

rhcsa | user and group management 
How to assign password to users?

 To assign a password you have to use the linux command "passwd username"
After that system will ask you to type a new password. then again you have to write your new password. Remember one thing, you can not see your password while you are typing the password. Finally you will get a successful message.

rhcsa | user and group management 
How to force user to change password on next logon?

Here in this picture "0" (zero) used to force user to change the password at the first login. 


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