{"id":249,"date":"2026-05-01T02:24:26","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T02:24:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/lishondawilliamscyse270\/?p=249"},"modified":"2026-05-01T02:24:26","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T02:24:26","slug":"assignment-4-group-and-user-management","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/lishondawilliamscyse270\/2026\/05\/01\/assignment-4-group-and-user-management\/","title":{"rendered":"Assignment 4 &#8211; Group and User Management"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This assignment focused on the creation, modification, and deletion of groups and users. I was tasked with using <strong>sudo<\/strong> to create a user, assign the user to a group, and eventually delete it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This lab was relatively straightforward. However, I did occasionally neglect to use all the flags, such as <strong>-d<\/strong>, to ensure that the home directory was explicitly stated when creating a user directory. Also, I failed to use <strong>root<\/strong> to display the group membership for a user. Despite these mistakes, I was given the necessary information to be able to modify users to remove them and assign them to groups, as well as delete users\/groups that are no longer needed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This assignment focused on the creation, modification, and deletion of groups and users. I was tasked with using sudo to create a user, assign the user to a group, and eventually delete it. This lab was relatively straightforward. However, I did occasionally neglect to use all the flags, such as -d, to ensure that the&#8230; <\/p>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/lishondawilliamscyse270\/2026\/05\/01\/assignment-4-group-and-user-management\/\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":20235,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wds_primary_category":0},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/lishondawilliamscyse270\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/lishondawilliamscyse270\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/lishondawilliamscyse270\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/lishondawilliamscyse270\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20235"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/lishondawilliamscyse270\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=249"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/lishondawilliamscyse270\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":260,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/lishondawilliamscyse270\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249\/revisions\/260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/lishondawilliamscyse270\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/lishondawilliamscyse270\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/lishondawilliamscyse270\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}