How to Manage Users and Groups on Ubuntu Linux
7 min readJan 1, 2020
Note: This tutorial applies to the BASH shell and UNIX based operating systems. Windows OS will be different.
Table of Contents
- What is a User?
- The Root User
- Getting more information about a user
- What is a Group?
- Setting permissions
- .bashrc, .bash_profile, .bash_login, .profile
Many tutorials cover the topic of permissions within a UNIX based operating system…