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This document provides information on user management and administration in system and network administration. It discusses concepts like user registration, account policies, creating and assigning users to groups. It also demonstrates how to perform tasks like creating users and groups, adding users to groups, deleting users and groups in Linux and Windows servers. The learning objectives are to understand user management concepts and demonstrate user administration skills in Linux and Windows.

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ICT543 - System and Network Administration

This document provides information on user management and administration in system and network administration. It discusses concepts like user registration, account policies, creating and assigning users to groups. It also demonstrates how to perform tasks like creating users and groups, adding users to groups, deleting users and groups in Linux and Windows servers. The learning objectives are to understand user management concepts and demonstrate user administration skills in Linux and Windows.

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ICT543 - System and Network Administration

Information Sheet 2.1: User Management and


Administration

Federal TVET Institute


Dr. Patrick D. Cerna
Department of Information and Communication Technology
Presenter
Master of Science in ICT Teachers Education
Learning Objectives: At the end of the topic,
the students will be able to:
know the concepts of user management
understand the user registration, account policy and user
support services
Create users and assign it to a group
Create User policy, rights and privilege
Demonstrate user and group registration and
administration in Linux Server and Windows 2012
Server
User Management
Without users, there would be few challenges in system
administration
. System administrators must cater to all needs, and
ensure the stability and security of the system.
From User Registration, Account Policy, controlling users
resources, etc.
User registration
For small organizations, user registration is a relatively simple matter.
Users can be registered at a centralized location by the system manager,
and made available to all of the hosts in the network by some sharing
mechanism, such as a login server, distributed authentication service or
by direct copying of the data.
For larger organizations, with many departments, user registration is
much more complicated. The need for centralization is often in conflict
with the need for delegation of responsibility.
It is convenient for autonomous departments to be able to register their
own users, but it is also important for all users to be registered under
the umbrella of the organization, to ensure unique identities for the users
and flexibility of access to different parts of the organization.

Local and network accounts


With a local account, a user has permission to use
only the local host.
With a network account, the user can use any host
which belongs to a network domain.
They will need access to system resources wherever
they are. It follows that they need distributed
accounts.
Account policy
Most organizations need a strict policy for assigning
accounts and opening thesystem for users.
Users are the foremost danger to a computing system, so
theresponsibility of owning an account should not be
dealt out lightly
Account policy
What should an account policy contain?

1. Rules about what users are allowed/not allowed to do.


2. Specifications of what mandatory enforcement users can
expect, e.g. tidying of garbage files.
3. Any account policy should contain a clause about weak
passwords. If weak passwords are discovered, it must be
understood by users that their account can be closed
immediately.
Types of Users

Passive users utilize the system often minimally, quietly


accepting the choices which have been made for them.

Active users, on the other hand, follow every detail of


system development.They frequently find every error in
the system and contact system administratorsfrequently,
demanding upgrades of their favorite programs
Controlling User Resources
Disk quotas: Place fixed limits on the amount of disk space
which can beused per user. The advantage of this is that
the user cannot use more storagethan this limit
CPU time limit: Some faulty software packages leave
processes running whichconsume valuable CPU cycles to
no purpose.
Policy decisions: Users collect garbage. To limit the amount
of it, one canspecify a system policy which includes items
of the form
Moving and Deleting Users
When disk partitions become full, it is necessary to move
users from old partitionsto new ones. Moving users is a
straightforward operation, but it should be donewith some
caution. A user who is being moved should not be logged in
while themove is taking place, or files could be copied
incorrectly.
Users who leave an organization eventually need to be
deleted from the system.For the sake of certainty, it is often
advisable to keep old accounts for a timein case the user
actually returns, or wishes to transfer data to a new location
Moving and Deleting Users
Then we have to remove the following:

Account entry from the password database.


Personal files.
E-mail and voice mail and mailing lists.
Removal from groups and lists (e.g. mailing lists).
Revocation of smartcards and electronic ID codes
Computer usage policy
Let us formulate a generic policy for computer users, the like
of which one might expect company employees to agree to
Information Technology Policy Documents are becoming more
widely used. Their practice has to be recommended, if only
to make it clear to everyone involved what is considered
acceptable behavior. Such documents could save organization
sreal money in law-suits. The policy should include:
What all parties should do in case of dismissal
What all parties should do in case of security breach
What are users responsibilities to their organization?
What are the organizations responsibilities to their users?
Managing Ubuntu Linux Users and Groups
Adding a User to an Ubuntu Linux System
Deleting a User from an Ubuntu Linux System
Adding a New Group to an Ubuntu Linux System
Deleting a Group from an Ubuntu Linux System
Adding a User to an Ubuntu Linux System

Create a user and its home directory

Sudo adduser --home /home/habtamu habtamu


Adding a User to an Ubuntu Linux System

Create a user

Sudo adduser habtamu

Create a user and its home directory

Sudo adduser --home /home/habtamu habtamu


Adding a User to an Ubuntu Linux System

Create a user and its home directory

Sudo adduser --home /home/habtamu habtamu


Delete a User to an Ubuntu Linux System

Delete a user and its home directory

Sudo deluser remove-home tigist


Adding a New Group to an Ubuntu Linux
System
Add Group:
Sudo addgroup masters

Add User to Group:


Sudo addgroup tigist masters
Check for Group and Users
Check Users:

Sudo Compgen -u

Check Groups:
Sudo Getent group
Remove a User and a Group to an Ubuntu
Linux System
Remove Users in a group:

Sudo deluser tigist masters

Remove Groups:
Sudo delgroup masters
References:

Principles of Network and System Administration (2nod Edition), John Wiley and Sons
Ltd, Mark Burgess, 2004.
Essential System Administration, 3rd Edition, OReilly and Associates Inc., Len Frisch,
2003.
Running Linux, (5th Edition), OReilly and Associates Inc., Matthias KalleDalheimer
and Matt Welsh, 2007.
http://www.ubuntugeek.com/
http://howtoubuntu.org/
http://www.indianwebportal.com/difference-windowslinux-macintosh
Thank You!!!

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