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CentOS Quick Start Guide

You're reading from   CentOS Quick Start Guide Get up and running with CentOS server administration

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Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2018
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ISBN-13 9781789344875
Length 320 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Shiwang Kalkhanda Shiwang Kalkhanda
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Table of Contents (11) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Getting Started with CentOS 7 FREE CHAPTER 2. Command-Line and Filesystem Navigation 3. Managing Text Files 4. User and Group Management 5. Managing File Permissions 6. Process Management 7. Managing Networking in CentOS 8. Software Package Management 9. Overview of Essential Advance Utilities 10. Other Books You May Enjoy

Understanding users and groups in CentOS 7

Managing different types of users and groups is one of the primary roles of system administration. Using different types of user and group account as a role-based access control is configured into the system. Depending upon the privileges of user, we can restrict user access to various system resources.

Defining a user

Each process running on our system is started by a user, to whom it belongs. Access to different files and directories by running processes is determined by the user associated with that process. Similarly, every file in our system is owned by some user and access to different files and directories on the system is restricted by user privileges. By default, new files...

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