Chapter 4

Basic System Administration

Introduction

By now, if you have followed the directions provided so far, you should have a

Debian GNU/Linux system up and running. The next most obvious question

is: What do I do with it now that I have it running?

The answer is: First you must decide what the system is going to be used for.

In many cases, even a  private  workstation will have more than one user

account active on the machine. Even if the machine is not connected to the

Internet or any local net, there will be the need for more than one user account

on the machine from time to time, so there is good reason to understand how

to manage such accounts.

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