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Linux, UNIX User Management Commands PDF Print E-mail
Wednesday, 02 December 2009 18:52
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ac Print statistics about users' connect time.
   
accton Turn on accounting of processes. To turn it on type "accton /var/log/pacct".
   
adduser Ex: adduser mark - Effect: Adds a user to the system named mark
   
chage Used to change the time the user's password will expire.
   
chfn Change the user full name field finger information
   
chgrp Changes the group ownership of files.
   
chown Change the owner of file(s ) to another user.
   
ch passwd Update password file in batch.
   
chroot Run command or interactive shell with special root directory.
   
chsh Change the login shell.
   
edquota Used to edit user or group quotas. This program uses the vi editor to edit the quota.user and quota.group files. If the environment variable EDITOR is set to emacs, the emacs editor will be used. Type "export EDITOR=emacs" to set that variable.
   
faillog Examine faillog and set login failure limits.
   
finger See what users are running on a system.
   
g passwd Administer the /etc/group file.
   
groupadd Create a new group.
   
grpck Verify the integrity of group files.
   
grpconv Creates /etc/gshadow from the file /etc/group which converts to shadow passwords.
   
grpunconv Uses the files /etc/ passwd and /etc/shadow to create /etc/ passwd, then deletes /etc/shadow which converts from shadow passwords.
   
groupdel Delete a group.
   
groupmod Modify a group.
   
groups Print the groups a user is in
   
id Print real and effective user id and group ids.
   
last Display the last users logged on and how long.
   
lastb Shows failed login attempts. This command requires the file /var/log/btmp to exist in order to work. Type "touch /var/log/btmp" to begin logging to this file.
   
lastcomm Display information about previous commands in reverse order. Works only if process accounting is on.
   
lastlog Formats and prints the contents of the last login.
   
logname Print user's login name.
   
newgrp Lets a suer log in to a new group.
   
newusers Update and create newusers in batch.
   
passwd Set a user's pass word.
   
pwck Verify integrity of password files.
   
pwconv Convert to and from shadow passwords and groups.
   
quota Display users' limits and current disk usage.
   
quotaoff Turns system quotas off.
   
quotaon Turns system quotas on.
   
quotacheck Used to check a filesystem for usage, and update the quota.user file.
   
repquota Lists a summary of quota information on filesystems.
   
sa Generates a summary of information about users' processes that are stored in the /var/log/pacct file.
   
smbclient Works similar to an ftp client enabling the user to transfer files to and from a windows based computer.
   
smbmount Allows a shared directory on a windows machine to be mounted on the Linux machine.
   
smb passwd Program to change users passwords for samba.
   
su Ex: su mark - Effect: changes the user to mark, If not root will need marks password.
   
sulogin Single user login.
   
ulimit A bash builtin command for setting the processes a user can run.
   
useradd Create a new user or update default new user information.
   
userdel Delete a user account and related files.
   
usermod Modify a user account.
   
users Print the user names of users currently logged in.
   
utmpdump Used for debugging.
   
vigr Edit the password or group files.
   
vipw Edit the password or group files.
   
w Display users logged in and what they are doing.
   
wall Send a message to everybody's terminal.
   
who Display the users logged in.
   
whoami Print effective user id.
Get User Password Expiration Date # chage -l my_login_name
 
Network Information and Configuration Commands PDF Print E-mail
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Configure Network # netconfig Get Network Status # netstat
# ifconfig
Get Route Information # route Get Network Cards # lspci | grep -i ethernet Dump TCP Packages to View # tcpdump Dump TCP Packages Into /root/tcpdump.txt # tcpdump >> /root/tcpdump.txt Manage Network Service # /etc/init.d/network restart # service network status
# service network start
# service network stop
# service network restart
Firewall # service iptables status
# service iptables start
# service iptables stop
# service iptables restart
Get Connections # netstat -ntu Detailed Network Connections Information # netstat -nap
# netstat -ntulp
Detailed Network Connections Information # lsof -i -n -P Check Port : 9991 for ip 83.139.15.58 # nmap -v -p 9991 83.139.15.58 Get Port Information. (9111 is the port) # cat /etc/services | grep 9111 Check the 834 Port # netstat -anp | grep 834 Check the 834 Port and Get Service Running # lsof -i | grep 834
 


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