Adding and Modifying Users and Groups in Linux

1 · Benjamin Cane · June 24, 2013, 2 p.m.
Adding and Modifying Users and Groups is a core systems administration task. The act of adding a user and group is fairly easy however there are some tricks that help make the long-term management of users easier. Tips for easier management Keep user attributes consistent amongst all systems A common mistake sysadmins make when building a new environment is they will allow uid's, gid's, home directories and other user attributes to be mis-matched from system to system....