groups

Use the useradd command to create three new users bill, kate and jane e.g.

useradd jane                                 ccreate user

            passwd jane                                  give password

 cat /et/cpasswd and cat /etc/shadow.                     check users where created

 su jane.                 log on as another user

Home Directories

            mkdir jane      make directory

            ls –l                                        show details on current dir

            chown jane jane        change owner

            chgrp users jane        change group

Groups

To create a new group:           

           

            groupadd myGroup

To add users to this group

            groupmod –A jane myGroup (do this for two users)

  cat /etc/group opens group file

reads out a file

while read names

     do

              echo $names

     done < fileName