Standard Users - Red Hat ENTERPRISE LINUX 4 System Administration Manual

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5. A directory for user juan is created in the /home/ directory. This directory is owned by user juan
and group juan. However, it has read, write, and execute privileges only for the user juan. All
other permissions are denied.
6. The files within the /etc/skel/ directory (which contain default user settings) are copied into the
new /home/juan/ directory.
At this point, a locked account called juan exists on the system. To activate it, the administrator must
next assign a password to the account using the passwd command and, optionally, set password
aging guidelines.

32.3. Standard Users

Table 32.4, "Standard Users"
Everything installation. The groupid (GID) in this table is the primary group for the user. See
Section 32.4, "Standard Groups"
User
root
bin
daemon
adm
lp
sync
shutdown
halt
mail
news
uucp
operator
games
gopher
ftp
nobody
rpm
vcsa
dbus
ntp
canna
nscd
rpc
lists the standard users configured in the /etc/passwd file by an
for a listing of standard groups.
UID GID Home Directory
0 0
/root
1 1
/bin
2 2
/sbin
3 4
/var/adm
4 7
/var/spool/lpd
5 0
/sbin
6 0
/sbin
7 0
/sbin
8 12
/var/spool/mail
9 13
/etc/news
10 14
/var/spool/uucp
11 0
/root
12 100
/usr/games
13 30
/var/gopher
14 50
/var/ftp
99 99
/
37 37
/var/lib/rpm
69 69
/dev
81 81
/
38 38
/etc/ntp
39 39
/var/lib/canna
28 28
/
32 32
/
Standard Users
Shell
/bin/bash
/sbin/nologin
/sbin/nologin
/sbin/nologin
/sbin/nologin
/bin/sync
/sbin/shutdown
/sbin/halt
/sbin/nologin
/sbin/nologin
/sbin/nologin
/sbin/nologin
/sbin/nologin
/sbin/nologin
/sbin/nologin
/sbin/nologin
/sbin/nologin
/sbin/nologin
/sbin/nologin
/sbin/nologin
/sbin/nologin
/sbin/nologin
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