Day7 ( Process Control & User Management )

Process management and User administration is very important aspect on a multi-user operating system like Linux. We covered some important commands that help you work on these aspects.

Agenda for Day7

  • Performing basic Process Control

    • System Processes Overview
    • View a process ( ps )
    • Search for a specific process ( pgrep )
    • Send a signal to a process ( pkill )
    • Terminating processes with the kill command ( kill )
  • User Administration / Management

    • Describing the Fundamentals of User Administration
    • Managing User Accounts – Addition, Modification, and password reset of User Accounts
    • Managing Initialization Files ( .bashrc, .bash_profile, .bash_history )

User Management