Windows-to-Linux roadmap: Pt 4: User administration
IBM e-business architect Chris Walden is your guide through a nine-part developerWorks series on moving your operational skills from a Windows to a Linux environment. In this part, we add and delete users and groups, both via the Webmin interface and at the command line. Shadow password and group files are also covered.
Administering users in Linux is both very similar to and very different from administering Windows users. Both systems are multi-user, and control access to resources is based on user identity. Both systems allow collecting users into groups so that access control can be done more easily without having to touch many users for each change. From there, the two systems begin to diverge.
