This is the File where users are stored.
What is /etc/passwd?
This is the Default location of the users home directory.
What is /home?
This server allows centralized user login/permission information.
What is a LDAP server?
This command is similar to 'who' but more verbose?
What is w?
This command Adds students to /etc/group
What is addgroup students?
This is the format of /etc/passwd.
What is username:password:UserID:GroupID:userInfo:home:shell?
This is an Example of a default shell which is located in /etc/passwd and is used when the user logs in.
What is /bin/bash?
These are the advantages to LDAP.
What are changing your password, deactivating a user account and same user account on multiple computers?
This file stores groups.
What is /etc/group?
This command removes the user bob including bob's home directory.
What is deluser --remove-home bob?
In linux the default is to have the argument of adduser all lowercase. What is this argument?
What is username?
User passwords are encrypted and stored in this file
What is /etc/shadow?
This command gives information on all users (LDAP) allowed to use that system?
What is getent passwd?
This is the format of /etc/group?
What is GroupName:x:GroupID:Users?
This command remove students from /etc/group
What is delgroup students?
This is A unique number computer assigned to each user.
What is a User ID (UID)?
This date is when the time started for Unix computers (aka the epoch date)
When is January 1, 1970?
This command displays the current username
What is whoami?
This command creates a new user called username
What is adduser username?
This command is a low level to add users.
What is useradd?
This is A unique number computer assigned to each group.
What is a Group ID (GID)?
This is what LDAP stands for.
What is Lightweight Directory Access Protocol?
This command tells you who else is logged in to the computer
What is who?
This command removes the user bob but doesn't remove bob's home directory
What is deluser bob?
This is a low level command to delete users.
What is userdel?