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Linux Mint System Administrator's Beginner's Guide

By : Arturo Fernandez Montoro
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Linux Mint System Administrator's Beginner's Guide

By: Arturo Fernandez Montoro

Overview of this book

<p>System administrators are responsible for keeping servers and workstations working properly. They perform actions to get a secure, stable, and robust operating system. In order to do that, system administrators perform actions such as monitoring, accounts maintenance, restoring backups, and software installation. All these actions and tasks are crucial to business success.<br /><br />"Linux Mint System Administrator’s Beginner’s Guide" is a practical and concise guide that offers you clear step-by-step exercises to learn good practices, commands, tools, and tips and tricks to convert users into system administrators in record time.<br /><br />You’ll learn how to perform basic operations, such as create user accounts and install software. Moving forward, we’ll find out more about important tasks executed daily by system administrators.</p> <p><br />Data and information are very important so you’ll learn how to create and restore backups. You will also learn about one of the most important points of an operating system: security.</p> <p><br />Thanks to "Linux Mint System Administrator’s Beginner’s Guide", you’ll learn all the basics you need to install and keep a robust and reliable Linux Mint operating system up to date.</p>
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Linux Mint System Administration Beginner's Guide
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Time for action – changing the password for a user


Each user of the system can change their own password using a GUI application provided by Linux Mint. We're going to learn how to do that now:

  1. Click on the Menu button and click again on the All Applications button located on the right-hand side of the Favorites pane.

  2. Click on the Administration menu option.

  3. A set of new options will be displayed, so you only need to click on the Users and Groups menu option as shown in the following screenshot:

  4. After clicking on Users and Groups, a dialog box asking for your password will be displayed. Type your password and click on the Authenticate button:

  5. A new window will be displayed if your password is correct. This is the Linux Mint application for dealing with users and groups:

  6. Click on the Change... button close to the Password: Asked on login option.

  7. The following window allows you to change your password. First, you should type your current password. Then you can select the Set password by hand option...