From the course: Linux CentOS 7: User and Group Management
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User and group overview - Linux Tutorial
From the course: Linux CentOS 7: User and Group Management
User and group overview
- [Narrator] Linux is a multi-user, multi-terminal operating system. This means that Linux supports many different users logged in at the same time. To simplify management of users, Linux supports adding them to groups. An administrator can add multiple users to a group and then give that group specific access to resources. This is much easier to manage than having to configure access control for each individual user, one at a time. There's a few things we need to be aware of concerning the Linux user and group management system. Every user has a name and a numeric user ID. Every group has a name and a numeric group ID. Each user is required to belong to one group called a primary group. In RedHat, this primary group is created automatically and has the same name as the user. In other distributions, all users might belong to one group. In the case of Debian Linux, this primary group is named users. Files created by a user belong to the user and the user's primary group. Users cannot…
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