{"id":390,"date":"2026-05-01T01:24:19","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T01:24:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/nicolascook\/?p=390"},"modified":"2026-05-01T02:11:20","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T02:11:20","slug":"lab-4-group-and-user-management","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/nicolascook\/2026\/05\/01\/lab-4-group-and-user-management\/","title":{"rendered":"Lab 4 &#8211; Group and User management"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This lab introduced me to user and group account management in Linux. I practiced creating and modifying user accounts, setting passwords, changing login shells, and adding users to groups while verifying changes using system files and commands like grep. I also worked with group management by creating and renaming groups, adding users without removing existing memberships, and changing file ownership. A challenge was keeping track of the correct command options and understanding how group changes affected file ownership. Overall, it improved my understanding of Linux user administration, permissions, and group-based access control.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This lab introduced me to user and group account management in Linux. I practiced creating and modifying user accounts, setting passwords, changing login shells, and adding users to groups while verifying changes using system files and commands like grep. I also worked with group management by creating and renaming groups, adding users without removing existing&#8230; <\/p>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/nicolascook\/2026\/05\/01\/lab-4-group-and-user-management\/\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":30558,"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\/nicolascook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/nicolascook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/nicolascook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/nicolascook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30558"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/nicolascook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=390"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/nicolascook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":443,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/nicolascook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390\/revisions\/443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/nicolascook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/nicolascook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/nicolascook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}