Managing Users and Groups

I mostly manage my server remotely since it's mainly a server and I don't need to touch it most. So I use the command-line user and group management tools to manage users. Here's my quick overview (as usual, get more info using command --help or man command):

id username - shows info on the username including groups, etc.

groups username - shows info on the groups belonging to. similar to id

useradd, userdel, usermod - manages users

groupadd, groupdel, groupmod - manages groups

passwd - update a user's authentication token(s)

last - shows the last X users logged into the server.

last updated: 08/21/01 21:29:50 -0500
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