8.Explain the process of creating and maintaining user accounts in Linux.
Ans.
1. To log on to a Linux machine, an account must be created for each user.
2. Creating and maintaining accounts for different users is a duty of System administrator.
3. System administrator decides what access should be provided for users, it involves decisions System administrator or company makes.
4. You might want to let users select their own password, which would no doubt make them easier to remember but which probably increase the security risk.
5. You might decide that user must change their password periodically.
6. To what, may specific users have access, it might be that there are aspects of your business that make web access desirable.
7. If your system is at home, you may wish to limit your children’s access to certain website.
8. Old accounts that no longer exist in company can be allotted to new users with different passwords because you don’t want the old users to access that account from anywhere else.
Ans.
1. To log on to a Linux machine, an account must be created for each user.
2. Creating and maintaining accounts for different users is a duty of System administrator.
3. System administrator decides what access should be provided for users, it involves decisions System administrator or company makes.
4. You might want to let users select their own password, which would no doubt make them easier to remember but which probably increase the security risk.
5. You might decide that user must change their password periodically.
6. To what, may specific users have access, it might be that there are aspects of your business that make web access desirable.
7. If your system is at home, you may wish to limit your children’s access to certain website.
8. Old accounts that no longer exist in company can be allotted to new users with different passwords because you don’t want the old users to access that account from anywhere else.
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