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CentOS Quick Start Guide

CentOS Quick Start Guide

By : Kalkhanda
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CentOS Quick Start Guide

CentOS Quick Start Guide

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By: Kalkhanda

Overview of this book

Linux kernel development has been the worlds largest collaborative project to date. With this practical guide, you will learn Linux through one of its most popular and stable distributions. This book will introduce you to essential Linux skills using CentOS 7. It describes how a Linux system is organized, and will introduce you to key command-line concepts you can practice on your own. It will guide you in performing basic system administration tasks and day-to-day operations in a Linux environment. You will learn core system administration skills for managing a system running CentOS 7 or a similar operating system, such as RHEL 7, Scientific Linux, and Oracle Linux. You will be able to perform installation, establish network connectivity and user and process management, modify file permissions, manage text files using the command line, and implement basic security administration after covering this book. By the end of this book, you will have a solid understanding of working with Linux using the command line.
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Understanding users and groups in CentOS 7

Managing different types of users and groups is one of the primary roles of system administration. Using different types of user and group account as a role-based access control is configured into the system. Depending upon the privileges of user, we can restrict user access to various system resources.

Defining a user

Each process running on our system is started by a user, to whom it belongs. Access to different files and directories by running processes is determined by the user associated with that process. Similarly, every file in our system is owned by some user and access to different files and directories on the system is restricted by user privileges. By default, new files...

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