Linux uses groups in order to share resources in a easy way. In general a resource will have a user, group and other access rights. In this tutorial we will learn how to add user to a Linux group and its variations like creating group, deleting group, listing group members etc. Linux Groups Linux groups are organizational units used to organize and administrator user account and rights. Especially for privilege...
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 add user into a Ubuntu, Kali, Mint, Debian box and provide or change required parameters. We will also look user deletion. Root Privileges In order to add or remove user from a Linux box we...
CentOS is enterprise level Linux distribution which is clone of the RedHat. User management like create, add, remove etc is important part of the daily Administration tasks. In this tutorial we will look how to add new user to the CentOS system. List Current Users Before creating new user we will list existing users. We can use different methods to list existing users but following is the most practical way...
Linux all operations are done with users. In Linux environment to create a file, start a service, open a network port we need a user with required privileges. Linux users are stored in plain test database at /etc/passwd . As old times user passwords also stored in this file but on modern time for security reasons user passwords are hold in /etc/shadow . There is also user groups to manage permission better. User groups are...
Cockpit is a web application that provides easy administration for Linux servers. It is mainly developed for Fedora but other distributions are OK too. Latest Cockpit version is 118 as writing this article. Features: Cockpit provides easy container management Storage administration Network configuration Inspection of logs etc. Zero footprint and very little resource consumption. Installing Cockpit We will install cockpit for Fedora 24 but it is similar for other distributions....
