Weight: 5

Description:
Candidates should be able to add, remove, suspend and change user accounts.

• Key knowledge area(s):
  • Add, modify and remove users and groups.
  • Manage user/group info in password/group databases.
  • Create and manage special purpose and limited accounts.

• The following is a partial list of the used files, terms and utilities:
  • /etc/passwd
  • /etc/shadow
  • /etc/group
  • /etc/skel
  • chage
  • groupadd
  • groupdel
  • groupmod
  • passwd
  • useradd
  • userdel
  • usermod