Challenge 07 - Group and user management - Coach’s Guide

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Notes & Guidance

1. Create the groups: marketing, finance, apps and production

student@vm01:~$ for name in marketing finance apps production; do sudo groupadd ${name}; done

1. Create the users below with the given characteristics:

   1. login: anna, main group: marketing

   student@vm01:~$ sudo useradd -c "Anna" -d /home/anna -m -s /bin/bash -g marketing anna

   1. login: mary, main group: finance

   student@vm01:~$ sudo useradd -c "Mary" -d /home/mary -m -s /bin/bash -g finance mary

   1. login: peter, main group: apps

   student@vm01:~$ sudo useradd -c "Peter" -d /home/peter -m -s /bin/bash -g apps peter

   1. login: rick, main group: production

   student@vm01:~$ sudo useradd -c "Rick" -d /home/rick -m -s /bin/bash -g production rick

   Another way to create:

    student@vm01:~$ for usr in anna:marketing mary:finance peter:apps rick:prouction; do
    login=$(echo $usr | cut -d: -f1)
    group=$(echo $usr | cut -d: -f2)
    sudo useradd -c "$login" -d /home/$login -m -s /bin/bash -g $group $login
    done  
   

2. Create passwords for all users

student@vm01:~$ sudo passwd anna

student@vm01:~$ sudo passwd mary

student@vm01:~$ sudo passwd peter

student@vm01:~$ sudo passwd rick