Session 1: Introduction to System Administration & User Management (Linux & Windows)

Focus: Linux & Windows User Management

Hands-on Exercise

Linux:

1. Create a new student user:

   sudo useradd student
2. Set a password for the student user:

   sudo passwd student
3. Create a test file and assign ownership to the student:

   sudo touch /home/student/testfile.txt
   sudo chown student /home/student/testfile.txt

Windows:

1. Create a user using PowerShell:

   New-LocalUser -Name "student1" -Password (ConvertTo-SecureString "password" -AsPlainText -Force)
2. Add user to a group:

   Add-LocalGroupMember -Group "Users" -Member "student1"
3. Change file ownership and permissions:

   takeown /f "C:\example\file.txt" /r /d Y
   icacls "C:\example\file.txt" /grant student1:(F)
4. Create a user in Windows and assign proper file/folder permissions to that user:

   New-LocalUser -Name "student2" -Password (ConvertTo-SecureString "password123" -AsPlainText -Force)
   Add-LocalGroupMember -Group "Users" -Member "student2"
   takeown /f "C:\example\folder" /r /d Y
   icacls "C:\example\folder" /grant student2:(M)