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Linux+ Security: Manage Local Users

In this lab you’ll gain hands-on experience in managing and configuring local user accounts in a Linux environment. Participants will learn essential commands and techniques for creating, modifying, and managing user accounts.

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Level
Beginner
Last updated
Sep 28, 2025
Duration
1h 0m

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Table of Contents
  1. Challenge

    List User Accounts

    To start the lab, you will learn about the various commands that can be used to list user accounts in Linux.

  2. Challenge

    Manage New User Accounts

    In this challenge, you will create new user accounts using both default and non-default settings. Additionally, you will modify the default setting of the user account.

  3. Challenge

    Modify and Delete User Accounts

    You will create user and group accounts, as well as modify existing user accounts by adding primary and supplementary groups.

  4. Challenge

    Create a User with a Specific UID and GID

    This is a short one, and you will quickly learn how to specify IDs when creating a user and a group.

  5. Challenge

    Manage User Password Expiration and Aging

    To finish this lab, you will implement password aging policies for a user account using the chage command.

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