Chapter 14 Users and Basic Account Management

Table of Contents
14.1 Synopsis
14.2 Introduction
14.3 The Superuser Account
14.4 System Accounts
14.5 User Accounts
14.6 Modifying Accounts
14.7 Limiting Users
14.8 Groups
Contributed by Neil Blakey-Milner.

14.1 Synopsis

FreeBSD allows multiple users to use the computer at the same time. Obviously, only one of those users can be sitting in front of the screen and keyboard at any one time [1], but any number of users can log in through the network to get their work done. To use the system every user must have an account.

After reading this chapter, you will know:

Before reading this chapter, you should:

Notes

[1]

Well, unless you hook up multiple terminals, but we will save that for Chapter 27.