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Linux Boot Lecture 1-2

This document discusses Linux user administration. It covers commands for adding, modifying, locking, and deleting users. It also discusses setting password expiration policies and changing user home directories. Key files for storing user information are listed. Finally, it provides some help and shutdown commands in Linux.

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Linux Boot Lecture 1-2

This document discusses Linux user administration. It covers commands for adding, modifying, locking, and deleting users. It also discusses setting password expiration policies and changing user home directories. Key files for storing user information are listed. Finally, it provides some help and shutdown commands in Linux.

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System

&
Network
Administration (MCSA & RHCSA)

Lecture 1-2 By Waseem Ahmad


Topic :LINUX BOOT
Login Process
After Running that it set rest of variable and set them in Profile .d

After Completing the work of Profile .d the next script is run in the user Home Dir.
.bash_profile
Then it also set the
.bashrc ->you can
Change your cmd
Look and feel from
Here.
Now Login as Root Make new user
 Command:
 SU - For Switching the user as Root

 Useradd waseem
 Ls /home/
 Userdel –r waseem
 ///////// -r mean recursive deletion if we used the all data regarding user including its home dir
and mailbox also deleted.
User Important
 If we want to to show complete name of the user on login
 useradd –c “waseem ” ahmad
 By default the user directory create in home we can change the location of directory.
 Mkdir/home/admin
 Useradd –c “fawad” -d /home/admin/fawad fawad

 To modify the user used usermod command


 Like e.g usermod –c “asim khan ” asim
User Important
 Lock user account
 Passwd –l user9 // it will lock user9
 Passwd –u user9 // it will unlock user9

 We Enforce User to change its passwd after some time period /


 Chage –M 90 user1
 Chage –W 3 user1
 How to Expire the user passwd
 Chage -E 2016-4-20 user1 //expire user passwd on this date
Location of user files
 /etc/ passwd
 /etc/shadow
 /etc/group
 /etc/gshadow
Help and shutdown in Linux
 MAN AND INFO
 www.centos.org
 www.fedorforums.org
 www.linuxforum.org
 Reboot , init 6, init 0,
 Shutdown -r +5 //after 5 minute it shutdown
 Shutdown –c //to cancel
 Shutdown -h 22:00 “system will not available after 10 pm ”//show
warning to all user

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