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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

Changing password


In some cases, system administrators need to change the password of a user. For example, when a user forgets his password, he can the system administrator for a new one.

A password should be provided when a user is created, but each user should change their password when accessing the system for the first time.

The process of changing your own password is not hard; you can do it through a simple application that is installed by default in Linux Mint.