Summary
In this chapter, you learned about some advanced user management and how to manage users through the command line, along with password aging, quota, exposure to /etc/sudoers
, and how to modify them using visudo
. User and password management is a regular task that a system administrator performs on servers, and it has a very important role in the overall security of the system.
In the next chapter, we will look into advanced security features called Security-Enhanced Linux (SELinux), which comes integrated with CentOS or RedHat Linux operating systems.