Lesson 7. Managing Local Users

Authentication is the process by which people identify which user account they want 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 password, or one person may have multiple user accounts on the same system. In each case, the person supplies user account credentials (which usually consist of a name and a password) to identify the user ...

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