Linux provides root account as superuser or Administrator. As root account has all privileges to manage a system this may be a threat for misuse or error of administrators. We generally use normal user accounts in daily...
Linux users can be added with different ways. but one of the most used way is adding them throughout the shell because Linux admins loves shell usage. In this tutorial we will look how to...
passwd command is used to change password and provides information about Linux accounts. Normal or root user can change passwords. Normal user can only change his own password in the other hand root can change all users passwords....
Linux operating system have users to operate applications, services and other stuff. Multiple users can be interact with Linux and we call it multi-user. It may be ridiculous but long time ago operating systems was...
Linux provides usermod command by default for the most of the distributions. This command is used to user modification. After user creation the user related information, values and policies can be changed with usermod command. In...
Linux servers used around the world dominantly on the internet. They are used as a web server, file server, application server, etc. Being on the internet creates som risk for these systems. There are different...
The problem is we want to change the already created user name or user id. As we know there is a lot of configuration those rely on the user id like permissions. We will use...
Linux passwords are used to authenticate users. Linux passwords was hold in /etc/passwd file with other user related information like default shell, home directory path etc. Now in modern Linux distributions holds passwords in /etc/shadow...
In Linux users may have different groups registered. By default adding a user to the Linux system will create new user. There are different commands to change user group one of them is useradd which...
How can I remove a Linux user account from Linux system. As you know user management in Linux requires root privileges. While removing user his home directory can be remove or preserved. As same with...
