Linux user management commands

cnttbachkhoa , 2010/07/19 11:47 , Linux , Comments (2) , Reads (2219) , Via Original Large | Medium | Small
ac Print statistics  about users' connect time.
accton Turn on  accounting of processes. To turn it on type "accton /var/log/pacct".
adduser Ex: adduser  mark - Effect: Adds a user to the system named mark
chage Used to change  the time the user's password will expire.
chfn Change the user  full name field finger information
chgrp Changes the  group ownership of files.
chown Change the  owner of file(s ) to another user.
chpasswd Update  password file in batch.
chroot Run command  or interactive shell with special root directory.
chsh Change the  login shell.
edquota Used to edit  user or group quotas. This program uses the vi editor to edit the  quota.user and quota.group files. If the environment variable EDITOR is  set to emacs, the emacs editor will be used. Type "export EDITOR=emacs"  to set that variable.
faillog Examine  faillog and set login failure limits.
finger See what  users are running on a system.
gpasswd Administer  the /etc/group file.
groupadd Create a  new group.
grpck Verify the  integrity of group files.
grpconv Creates  /etc/gshadow from the file /etc/group which converts to shadow  passwords.
grpunconv Uses the  files /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow to create /etc/passwd, then deletes  /etc/shadow which converts from shadow passwords.
groupdel Delete a  group.
groupmod Modify a  group.
groups Print the  groups a user is in
id Print real and  effective user id and group ids.
last Display the  last users logged on and how long.
lastb Shows failed  login attempts. This command requires the file /var/log/btmp to exist in  order to work. Type "touch /var/log/btmp" to begin logging to this  file.
lastcomm Display  information about previous commands in reverse order. Works only if  process accounting is on.
lastlog Formats and  prints the contents of the last login.
logname Print user's  login name.
newgrp Lets a suer  log in to a new group.
newusers Update and  create newusers in batch.
passwd Set a user's  pass word.
pwck Verify  integrity of password files.
pwconv Convert to  and from shadow passwords and groups.
quota Display users'  limits and current disk usage.
quotaoff Turns  system quotas off.
quotaon Turns system  quotas on.
quotacheck Used to  check a filesystem for usage, and update the quota.user file.
repquota Lists a  summary of quota information on filesystems.
sa Generates a  summary of information about users' processes that are stored in the  /var/log/pacct file.
smbclient Works  similar to an ftp client enabling the user to transfer files to and from  a windows based computer.
smbmount Allows a  shared directory on a windows machine to be mounted on the Linux  machine.
smbpasswd Program to  change users passwords for samba.
su Ex: su mark -  Effect: changes the user to mark, If not root will need marks password.
sulogin Single user  login.
ulimit A bash  builtin command for setting the processes a user can run.
useradd Create a new  user or update default new user information.
userdel Delete a  user account and related files.
usermod Modify a  user account.
users Print the user  names of users currently logged in.
utmpdump Used for  debugging.
vigr Edit the  password or group files.
vipw Edit the  password or group files.
w Display users  logged in and what they are doing.
wall Send a message  to everybody's terminal.
who Display the  users logged in.
whoami Print  effective user id.

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