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Managing users and groups for network administration

Managing users and groups for network administration - Linux Tutorial

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Managing users and groups for network administration

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- [Instructor] In this video, we will learn how to create and manage users and groups in Linux. If you are wondering, "Why manage users and groups?" Well, it's to keep system organized, to control access to files, directories, and services, and to make sure users only have permissions they need. All right, let's go ahead and log into our Linux machine through PuTTY Terminal and run some commands to practice creating and managing users and groups. The first thing you have to do is to check the IP address of your Linux machine if you do not remember it. You could just simply type ip a. And here is the IP address of your machine ending with 1.28. All right, once you have that, then you could just input that to the PuTTY terminal. I'm going to start my PuTTY terminal. Okay, I already have this session saved previously. I'm going to click on it, load it, and open it. Okay, so now I have my terminal open, I'm going to go ahead and minimize the virtualization console in the background. Okay,…

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