User Account Configuration - Revision history

Bserrano at 20:46, 19 March 2014

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Kyoungmeyer at 20:59, 25 November 2013

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Kyoungmeyer at 23:00, 21 November 2013

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 Nearly every important file on a Linux system is owned by a single user and group: ''root''. The root account is essential to the security of any Linux system. Having all of the important executable and configuration files on the system owned by root means that only the root user may alter the way the system works. Other users have no permission to execute or change system files, and therefore, they cannot modify or damage the system.

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 Nearly every important file on a Linux system is owned by a single user and group: ''root''. The root account is essential to the security of any Linux system. Having all of the important executable and configuration files on the system owned by root means that only the root user may alter the way the system works. Other users have no permission to execute or change system files, and therefore, they cannot modify or damage the system.
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	Nearly every important file on a Linux system is owned by a single user and group: ''root''. The root account is essential to the security of any Linux system. Having all of the important executable and configuration files on the system owned by root means that only the root user may alter the way the system works. Other users have no permission to execute or change system files, and therefore, they cannot modify or damage the system.		Nearly every important file on a Linux system is owned by a single user and group: ''root''. The root account is essential to the security of any Linux system. Having all of the important executable and configuration files on the system owned by root means that only the root user may alter the way the system works. Other users have no permission to execute or change system files, and therefore, they cannot modify or damage the system.

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 == Next Steps ==
 Once all desired users are set up and secured, the network may be [[Network_Configuration | configured.]]
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	Nearly every important file on a Linux system is owned by a single user and group: ''root''. The root account is essential to the security of any Linux system. Having all of the important executable and configuration files on the system owned by root means that only the root user may alter the way the system works. Other users have no permission to execute or change system files, and therefore, they cannot modify or damage the system.		Nearly every important file on a Linux system is owned by a single user and group: ''root''. The root account is essential to the security of any Linux system. Having all of the important executable and configuration files on the system owned by root means that only the root user may alter the way the system works. Other users have no permission to execute or change system files, and therefore, they cannot modify or damage the system.

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	Nearly every important file on a Linux system is owned by a single user and group: ''root''. The root account is essential to the security of any Linux system. Having all of the important executable and configuration files on the system owned by root means that only the root user may alter the way the system works. Other users have no permission to execute or change system files, and therefore, they cannot modify or damage the system.		Nearly every important file on a Linux system is owned by a single user and group: ''root''. The root account is essential to the security of any Linux system. Having all of the important executable and configuration files on the system owned by root means that only the root user may alter the way the system works. Other users have no permission to execute or change system files, and therefore, they cannot modify or damage the system.

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	Nearly every important file on a Linux system is owned by a single user and group: ''root''. The root account is essential to the security of any Linux system. Having all of the important executable and configuration files on the system owned by root means that only the root user may alter the way the system works. Other users have no permission to execute or change system files, and therefore, they cannot modify or damage the system.		Nearly every important file on a Linux system is owned by a single user and group: ''root''. The root account is essential to the security of any Linux system. Having all of the important executable and configuration files on the system owned by root means that only the root user may alter the way the system works. Other users have no permission to execute or change system files, and therefore, they cannot modify or damage the system.

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-Nearly every important file on a Linux system is owned by a single user and group: ''root''. The root account is essential to the security of any Linux system. Having all of the important executable and configurations files on the system owned by root means that only the root user may alter the way the system works. Other users have no permission to execute or change system files, and therefore, they cannot modify or damage the system.
+Nearly every important file on a Linux system is owned by a single user and group: ''root''. The root account is essential to the security of any Linux system. Having all of the important executable and configuration files on the system owned by root means that only the root user may alter the way the system works. Other users have no permission to execute or change system files, and therefore, they cannot modify or damage the system.
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 == Account Management ==
-Unsurprisingly, it is critical that the root password be kept secret, and changed as often as is practical. A clumsy or malicious individual with the system's root password could render the entire system inoperative in a matter of seconds. Every EMAC Linux system ships from the factory with the same root password: ''emac_inc''. EMAC recommends you change the root password after your first login.
+Unsurprisingly, it is critical that the root password be kept secret. A clumsy or malicious individual with the system's root password could render the entire system inoperative in a matter of seconds. Every EMAC Linux system ships from the factory with the same root password: ''emac_inc''. EMAC recommends you change the root password after your first login. To avoid accidental damage to the filesystem, EMAC also recommends performing work while logged in as a user other than root as much as possible.
 Use the <code>passwd</code> utility to change the root password as illustrated below:
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   Password for root changed by root
-To change the password for the user, either login as user and use the <code>passwd</code> utility as shown above, or use the command <code>passwd user</code> when logged in as root.
+To change the password for a user, either login as the user and use the <code>passwd</code> utility as shown above, or use the command <code>passwd username</code> when logged in as root.
 ===New User===
 If desired, additional users may be added to the system. The following example demonstrates the process for creating a user named "test":
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   Retype password:
   Password for test changed by root
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