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notes 4. Each user’s personal directory is placed in the /home directory. The directory name will be
the same as their user name.
[root@bigboy tmp]# ll /home
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 12288 Jul 24 20:04 lost+found

drwx------ 2 accounts soho 1024 Jul 24 20:33 accounts
drwx------ 2 alice children 1024 Jul 24 20:33 alice
drwx------ 2 derek children 1024 Jul 24 20:33 derek
drwx------ 2 jane parents 1024 Jul 24 20:33 jane
drwx------ 2 paul parents 1024 Jul 24 20:33 paul
drwx------ 2 sales soho 1024 Jul 24 20:33 sales
[root@bigboy tmp]#

Task Explain the procedure of adding the Linux users and assigning them to their
respective groups.

11.1.3 How to change passwords?

You need to create passwords for each account. This is done with the passwd command. You are
prompted once for your old password and twice for the new one.
1. User root changing the password for user paul.
[root@bigboy root]# passwd paul
Changing password for user paul.
New password:
Retype new password:

passwd: all authentication tokens updated successfully.
[root@bigboy root]#
2. Users might wish to change their passwords at a future date. Here is how unprivileged
user paul would change his own password.
[paul@bigboy paul]$ passwd
Changing password for paul
Old password: your current password
Enter the new password (minimum of 5, maximum of 8 characters)

Please use a combination of upper and lower case letters and numbers.
New password: your new password
Re-enter new password: your new password
Password changed.
[paul@bigboy paul]$

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