Question

linux:

1. Become the root user for this exercise. What command did you use to do this again?
   
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2. Now that you are root, create a new user on your system called labsevenuser. What is the command you used to create this user?
   
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3. Set a new password for the new user you just created in step 2 above. What is the command you used to do this?
   
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4. Create a new group called awesomepeople. Add the user you created in step 2 to this group. What is the command you used to do this?
   
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5. Paste the last 5 lines of the /etc/group and /etc/passwd here to show that you executed the commands above.

Exit from being the root user and use the following command to “become” the labsevenuser. Use the man page to tell me what the – (dash) option does for the su command in the space below. The command “su” stands for switch user.

$ su – labsevenuser

Explanation of – (dash):

Answer 1

1.create a new user on your system called labsevenuser.

$ sudo useradd labsevenuser

useradd is a command in Linux that is used to add user accounts to your system.

sudo gives escalated priviledges to user but require the admin password.

2.Set a new password for the new user you just created.

$ sudo passwd labsevenuser

passwd command in Linux is used to change the user account passwords.

--This command will propt you to enter and confirm the password.

3.Create a new group called awesomepeople. Add the user you created in that group.

groupadd command creates a new group account using the values specified on the command line and the default values from the system.

$ sudo groupadd awesomepeople

$ sudo usermod -a -G awesomepeople labsevenuser

usermod command or modify user is a command in Linux that is used to change the properties of a user in Linux through the command line

4.Paste the last 5 lines of the /etc/group and /etc/passwd here to show that you executed the commands above.

The /etc/group is a text file which defines the groups to which users belong under Linux and UNIX operating system.

/etc/passwd is a text file that contains the attributes of (i.e., basic information about) each user or account on a computer running Linux

/etc/group:

postdrop:x:90:
postfix:x:89:
chrony:x:996:
labsevenuser:x:1000:
awesomepeople:x:1001:labsevenuser

6. $ su – labSevenUser

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