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Managing Users, Groups, and Superuser Access on RHEL 8

Managing local users and groups is a key skill for any system administor. In this hands-on lab, we will create, delete, and modify local user accounts, change local user account passwords and adjust password aging, as well as create, delete, and modify local groups and group memberships on RHEL 8. Sometimes we need to give a user account elevated access to one or more commands, but we don't want to give them 'root' privileges, or access to an application user account. Fortunately, we can do this via the 'sudo' utility. Understanding how to configure 'sudo' properly is an important skill for system administrators. will examine how to configure superuser access using 'sudo' on RHEL 8. *This course is not approved or sponsored by Red Hat.*

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Path Info

Level

Beginner

Duration

45m

Published

Dec 04, 2020

Challenge

Create, Delete, and Modify Local User Accounts
1. Create two user accounts for Contract Employees.
2. Change the user's passwords.
3. Set Password Aging for one of the users.
Challenge

Create, Delete, and Modify Local Groups and Group Memberships
1. Create two custom local groups.
2. Modify the group information.
3. Modify group membership via the User Account and Group.
Challenge

Configure Superuser Access
1. Create a test account and configure it's access to user management tools.
2. Use the test account to create an admin_user account.
3. Add that user to the same user management alias.
4. Test the admin_user account's elevated privileges.

Author

A Cloud Guru

The Cloud Content team comprises subject matter experts hyper focused on services offered by the leading cloud vendors (AWS, GCP, and Azure), as well as cloud-related technologies such as Linux and DevOps. The team is thrilled to share their knowledge to help you build modern tech solutions from the ground up, secure and optimize your environments, and so much more!

What's a lab?

Hands-on Labs are real environments created by industry experts to help you learn. These environments help you gain knowledge and experience, practice without compromising your system, test without risk, destroy without fear, and let you learn from your mistakes. Hands-on Labs: practice your skills before delivering in the real world.