2. Overview
● Purpose of user administration
● Types of user accounts
● Adding , Modifying and deleting user accounts.
● User related configuration files
● Giving command permission to users through sudo.
● Recovery of User related configuration files.
3. ● There are three basic types of Linux user accounts:
- Administrative account (root)
- Service account - games, ftp, etc...
- Regular account
● Each user account is identified by UID (0 - 60,000)
- administrative (root) - 0
- service accounts – 1 - 499
- Regular accounts – 500 - 60,000
Types of user accounts