Chapter 2. Authenticating and Authorizing Accounts
Time
This chapter takes approximately three hours to complete.
Goals
Understand Authentication and Authorization
Create and Configure Local User Accounts
Create and Configure Local Group Accounts
Configure Limited Administrator Accounts for Monitoring and Administering
Configure Service Access Control Lists (SACLs)
Enable and Use Virtual Private Network (VPN) Service
Authentication is the process by which a person identifies which user account he or she wants to use on the system. This is similar to, but slightly different from, saying that authentication is how a person proves his or her identity to a system. The distinction is useful because multiple people may share the same user name and ...
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