Working with users

- [Instructor] In this chapter,…we'll look at some different user types…and examine user management permissions.…Given that Red Hat Enterprise Linux…is an enterprise-level, multi-user operating system,…even if you adjust that app a practice installation,…but particularly for security reasons,…you're going to want to have more than one user.…In a Red Hat Enterprise Linux environment,…you generally have two types of users.…First, you have your privileged user account…or your root account.…This includes system administration…and all device tasks that directly access devices.…

You also have an unprivileged user account.…This is for all activity…that doesn't require elevated privileges.…Now let's log in to our system as root,…and take a look at a command…that will help us locate some user account information.…First, we'll log in as root.…User account information is located at…/etc/ password.…This file contains one line for each user account.…We're going to use the cat command…to dump the contents on the screen.…So first, type cat.…