Add User Accounts2017/07/16

[1]	Add a new user account.

[root@localhost ~]#

useradd fedora

[root@localhost ~]#

passwd fedora

Changing password for user fedora.
New UNIX password:

# set password

Retype new UNIX password:

# confirm

passwd: all authentication tokens updated successfully.
[root@localhost ~]#

exit

# logout

[2]	Try to switch to a user that was added above.

localhost login:

fedora

# input user name

password:

# password

[fedora@localhost ~]$

su -

# switch to root

Password:

# root password

[root@localhost ~]#

# just switched to root

[3]	Make a user (it's [fedora] in this example) be only a user who can switch to root as an administration user.

[root@localhost ~]#

usermod -G wheel fedora

[root@localhost ~]#

vi /etc/pam.d/su

#%PAM-1.0
auth            sufficient      pam_rootok.so
# Uncomment the following line to implicitly trust users in the "wheel" group.
#auth           sufficient      pam_wheel.so trust use_uid
# Uncomment the following line to require a user to be in the "wheel" group.
# uncomment the following line
auth            required        pam_wheel.so use_uid
auth            substack        system-auth
auth            include         postlogin
account         sufficient      pam_succeed_if.so uid = 0 use_uid quiet
account         include         system-auth
password        include         system-auth
session         include         system-auth
session         include         postlogin
session         optional        pam_xauth.so

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