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Cheatsheet for Linux User Management Handling users # adds a new user called 'schoeffm' useradd -m -s /bin/zsh -G docker schoeffm # └┬┘└────┬─────┘└─┬─────┘ # │ │ │ # │ │ └─> List of groups the user # │ │ should be a member of # │ └─> login shell of the new account # └────────> also create a home directory for this # account # Assigns a new UID to <─────┐ # this account │ # ┌──┴──┐ usermod -aG docker -s /bin/zsh -L|U -u 4711 schoeffm # └───┬────┘ └───┬─────┘ └─┬─┘ # │ │ └─> Lock or Unlock user # │ └─> set new login shell for account # └────────────> append to the list of groups # without 'a' this will replace # the group list userdel not explicitly shown here since it’s comprehensible....

Cheatsheet for Linux Permission Management Standard Permissions There are three basic permissions which are read, write and execute. And they can be granted to a specific user (so if you are not that user those permissions do not apply to you) a group of users (if you’re not a member of that group those permissions do not apply to you) to all other users (so if the first two do not apply - these are then the permissions you’ll have on the respective file/directory) This is also the order in which linux checks the permissions....