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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 – creating a new group called develop


We'll continue using the GUI application for managing users and groups, so make sure it's running before continuing. We'll create a new group called develop.

  1. Click on the Manage Groups button.

  2. A new window showing all the existing groups will be displayed. Click on the Add button to continue.

  3. Type in your password and click on the Authenticate button. Right now you can see a new window called New group.

  4. Type develop in the Group name input box and click on the OK button, as shown in the following screenshot:

  5. As a result, you can see how the newly developed group is displayed in the list of existing groups.

What just happened?

The window for creating a new group allows us to choose a group name and group ID for it. This number identifies each group and must be different for each group created in the system. Linux Mint will choose a group ID by default for every new group, but you can choose a different number as well.

When you're creating a...