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Ubuntu Server Cookbook

You're reading from   Ubuntu Server Cookbook Arm yourself to make the most of the versatile, powerful Ubuntu Server with over 100 hands-on recipes

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Published in Jun 2016
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781785883064
Length 456 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Uday Sawant has completed Master’s in Computer Applications from Mumbai University. He is skilled with more than four years of experience in software development and operations field. Before working as a software developer, he worked extensively with server hardware as a system administrator.rnHe is an expert with the LAMP stack, JavaScript, and cloud infrastructure. Before starting as a software developer, he worked extensively with server hardware and has 2+ years’ experience as system administrator.rnCurrently, he is working as Software Scientist in a Mumbai based start-up called Sweetcouch. His responsibilities include developing back-end services, setting up a real-time communication server, and automating various daily tasks. With an immense interest in Machine Learning, he likes to spend his spare time exploring this subject. His first book was Instant Building Multipage Forms with Yii published by Packt publishing
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Preface 1. Managing Users and Groups FREE CHAPTER 2. Networking 3. Working with Web Servers 4. Working with Mail Servers 5. Handling Databases 6. Network Storage 7. Cloud Computing 8. Working with Containers 9. Streaming with Ampache 10. Communication Server with XMPP 11. Git Hosting 12. Collaboration Tools 13. Performance Monitoring 14. Centralized Authentication Service Index

Chapter 1. Managing Users and Groups

In this chapter, we will cover the following recipes:

  • Creating a user account
  • Creating user accounts in batch mode
  • Creating a group
  • Adding group members
  • Deleting a user account
  • Managing file permissions
  • Getting root privileges with sudo
  • Setting resource limits with limits.conf
  • Setting up public key authentication
  • Securing user accounts
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Uday Sawant has completed Master's in Computer Applications from Mumbai University. He is skilled with more than four years of experience in software development and operations field. Before working as a software developer, he worked extensively with server hardware as a system administrator. He is an expert with the LAMP stack, JavaScript, and cloud infrastructure. Before starting as a software developer, he worked extensively with server hardware and has 2+ years' experience as system administrator. Currently, he is working as Software Scientist in a Mumbai based start-up called Sweetcouch. His responsibilities include developing back-end services, setting up a real-time communication server, and automating various daily tasks. With an immense interest in Machine Learning, he likes to spend his spare time exploring this subject. His first book was Instant Building Multipage Forms with Yii published by Packt publishing
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