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Hands-On Linux System Administration [Video]

By : Jack-Benny Persson
Book Image

Hands-On Linux System Administration [Video]

By: Jack-Benny Persson

Overview of this book

Have you only come into brief contact with Linux before, but now you need to set up or maintain a Linux server? Then this course is for you. With this course you'll learn how to master any Linux machine. Control and master the administration of a Linux machine, whether a workstation or a server. You'll learn how to set up services, monitor the system, perform backups, and schedule common tasks. By the end of the course you will be ready to start your career as a Linux system administrator. The code bundle for this video course is available at: https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Hands-on-Linux-System-Administration
Table of Contents (6 chapters)
Chapter 4
User Management and Permissions
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Section 3
Creating User Groups
In this video we will learn how to create new groups on the system. - The first step in this video is to actually create a new group, which we do with the groupadd command. - The next step we take will be to add the new group, devops, as a supplementary group to our user johnb from the previous video. - As a last step in this video we check out the user johnb’s group memberships using the password file and the group file.