Inside Linux

Chapter 22. Managing Accounts

In this chapter, we focus primarily on the management of user and group accounts. It is important to understand what it takes to add, modify, and remove users and groups.

Beginning with the section that follows, an overview of user management is provided, followed by sections dealing with user account management and group account management.

Overview

Linux is a multitasking and multiuser operating system. When we talk about multitasking, we are referring to the fact that the operating system can execute more than one process at a time. Actually, only one process has the attention of the processor, but you can have multiple applications running and Linux will switch between these processes, allowing each application a ...