Chapter 8. Managing Users and Groups

Section 8.1.  Introduction

Recipe 8.2.  Sorting Human Users from System Users

Recipe 8.3.  Finding a User's UID and GID

Recipe 8.4.  Adding Users with useradd

Recipe 8.5.  Adding Users with adduser

Recipe 8.6.  Modifying User Accounts

Recipe 8.7.  Deleting a User

Recipe 8.8.  Killing User Processes the Easy, Fun Way

Recipe 8.9.  Disabling Accounts

Recipe 8.10.  Managing Passwords

Recipe 8.11.  Adding Groups with groupadd

Recipe 8.12.  Deleting Groups with groupdel

Recipe 8.13.  Creating a System User

Recipe 8.14.  Creating System Groups with addgroup

Recipe 8.15.  Adding and Deleting Group Members

Recipe 8.16.  Checking Password File Integrity

Recipe 8.17.  Adding New Users in Batches

Recipe 8.18.  Changing Masses of Passwords

Recipe 8.19.  Adding Batches of Users to Groups

Recipe 8.20.  Using su to Be Root Temporarily

Recipe 8.21.  Granting Limited Rootly Powers with sudo

Recipe 8.22.  Using Disk Quotas