That will create the user freetechie and also create the users home directory (and since it wasn’t defined explicitly with -d /home/directory it’ll grab the defaults which can be found in /etc/default/useradd).

Amazon EC2 Security Groups for Linux Instances . A security group acts as a virtual firewall that controls the traffic for one or more instances.

Managing Group Access. Linux groups are a mechanism to manage a collection of computer system users. All Linux users have a user ID and a group ID and a unique numerical identification number called a userid (UID) and a groupid (GID) respectively.

Changing the group a user is associated to is a fairly easy task, but not everybody knows the commands, especially to add a user to a secondary group. We’ll walk through all the scenarios for you. User accounts can be assigned to one or more groups on Linux. You can configure file permissions

A user avatar is used as the icon for your profile to illustrate your comments on an issue and your Hover Profile.. Choosing a User Avatar. You can choose your user avatar from the ones pre-packaged with JIRA or upload your own.

Linux System Administration and Configuration After installation, Linux requires configuration and systems administration. Corporate systems need monitoring, backups, updates, as well as system and user management.

Some of my projects are still in SSRS 2005 and PowerShell v1.0, so this script works and is tested on this environment only, for now. I plan to port this to SSRS2008, PowerShell v2.0 when I get the chance.

Sometimes it is useful to leverage the power of Group Policy in Active Directory to add sites to certain security zones in Internet Explorer. This can save the network admin the trouble of managing the security zone lists for each computer (or user) separately.

I would like to use PowerShell to add a specific user to the local administrator group on a machine. I would be running the PowerShell script in the context of a user that has Administration right

Learn how to administer and manage users, user accounts, user groups, permissions, privileges, and access-related settings in Linux.