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3.1 KiB
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219 lines
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>Chapter 11. Managing user accounts</H1
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>11.1. <A
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>What's an account?</A
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>Removing a user</A
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>"The similarities of sysadmins and drug
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dealers: both measure stuff in Ks, and both have users."</SPAN
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(Old, tired computer joke.)</P
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> This chapter explains how to create new user accounts,
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how to modify the properties of those accounts, and how to remove
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the accounts. Different Linux systems have different tools for
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doing this.</P
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