Complete Linux Course for Beginners | Part 5 - Managing users, mounts, & UNIX permissions

Complete Linux course for beginners is a new video series of basic and advanced tutorials aimed to deliver in depth knowledge through practical examples.

Ideal for beginners and advanced users who want to learn more, or for those who want to completely switch to Linux.

If you're one of those, then this tutorial lessons are the ideal solution for you!

PART 5 - Managing users, mounts, & UNIX permissions

This video lesson explains the management of user accounts and groups in Linux, the management of mount points, basic UNIX permissions and file links.

After the introduction, in part 2 it goes into the detail of how to add, manage and delete user accounts & groups with explaining the local system databases where these accounts and passwords are stored, more specifically the passwd, group and shadow database.

In part 3 file system mounts and block devices are explained and it is shown how to mount any device anywhere on the filesystem manually and from the fstab.

Part 4 explains the basic UNIX file and folder permissions with detailed explanation on how to manipulate these permissions by changing the ownership of files and folders and the read - write - execute permissions with chown and chmod commands.

The video ends with part 5 where it is shown how to create hard or soft links and the difference between them.

You will get familiar with the basic Linux commands such as: useradd, usermod, userdel, passwd, groupadd, groupmod, groupdel, id, gpasswd, lsblk, blkid, mount, umount, chown, chmod & ln

▼ Video Timeline:

00:00:00 | PART 1 - Introduction to lesson 5 00:01:07 | PART 2 - Managing user accounts & group 00:37:00 | PART 3 - Managing filesystem mounts 01:07:02 | PART 4 - Managing basic UNIX permissions 01:34:46 | PART 5 - Hard & soft (symbolic) links 01:48:00 | PART 6 - Lesson review

▼ List of Linux commands used in this video:

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