Chapter 4
User Management and Permissions
Section 2
Changing User Settings
In this video we learn how to change a user’s settings, such as a user’s default shell, the password, home directory and also the shell settings. - We start this video by re-creating the user from the previous video. We then use this user throughout this video. First of all we change his default shell. - We then login as the new user on the system, and let the user change his own password. We also let the user change his own default shell back to bash again. - We then login as root again, and move the user’s home directory using the usermod command. Then, as a last step we take a look at how the user himself can change his own shell settings by modifying the .bashrc file in his home directory.