In modern full featured Linux distributions, users are managed by the system. And on our HPC cluster, your user is managed by you wustl key. It is still worth learning about users if for no other reason then there is a big overlap between how users operate and how permissions operate. And a strangely high percentage of server problems do often come down to permissions issues. Also, say you write a script or a program, and you need it to be able to execute, but it won't work just by calling it's name on the shell. What do you do. Well fix the permissions.
- Whoami
- useradd / usermod
- passwd
- sudo
- chmod / chown