System Administration: User & Group Directory Management Analysis

This report discusses system administration, focusing on directory services and user/group management. It begins with an overview of directory services, detailing how they store organizational information in Linux and Windows environments. The report explains creating folder directories in Linux, configuring permissions, and using group policies in Windows to manage file directory access for different user groups, such as the IT department. Furthermore, it explores user and group management, defining groups in Active Directory and their role in managing user and computer access to shared resources. The process of adding users with administrator rights in Windows and enabling superuser privileges in Linux is also described, including specific commands and steps for managing user accounts and permissions. The document concludes with references to relevant publications.

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Introduction
Week one paper centered on Rouge Company’s network infrastructure. Week two paper, I was
able to highlight Linux and Windows environments where the paper suggested the location for each
server and its appropriate OS. Also, the paper was able to highlight active directory services and how the
organization need to install and deploy the directory services. This paper will have two parts, the
directory services and the under and group management.
Part 1: Directory services
To start with, directory services refer to a collection of processes, software, and hardware which
store information about an organization. For a Linux server operating system, it was designed to allow to
have more than one user to have access to the organization systems at the same time. For folder directory
each user is where the three permissions come into play; read, write, and execute the directory. To create
a folder directory in Linux follows the following commands are to be run
Command one
$ sudo mkdir -p /var/www/reports/
$ sudo groupadd project
Then one is required to add a user who is supposed to have write access to the active directory
Command two
$ sudo usermod -a -G project tecmint
Which by running the command shows the following screenshot

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As a network manager one has to continue to configure permissions where the rmx commands are
the permissions for the IT department and Rx and permissions for others. In the windows environment,
we use group policy in the administrative tools. For the IT department one ought to give the read and
write rights but for the other, we give read-only rights to the file directories (Hunter & Allen, 2010)
Part two: User and group management
A group is an active directory which contains contacts, computers, users, and other groups. A
system administrator can use groups to manage user and computer access to the shared resources like
active directory objects. One can also use groups to filter Group policy settings and create email
distribution lists. Local and the domain users can be added to the windows groups with the varying level
of rights to a server. To add a window user with an administrator on to a workstation, a user with
administrator rights have to log in and then add rights for a user. In windows, one needs to enable super
user administrator for the IT department by running the command prompt and typing the commands
Net User administrator /active: yes. To enable local groups and local users by pressing Windows + R and
the typing lusrmgr.msc and then pressing enter. The command will open all the local users and the group
windows. This the followed by righting and selecting properties and enabling read/write privileges
Since the Linux operating system is a multi-user OS, several users needed to log in or actively
working on a certain machine. To add have full control over file directories one requires superuser
privileges. A full control user is able to add users to a file system, delete a user account, modify a user
account, and run commands as another user. To do this one need to change the root user using the su
command or using the sudo command. For regular accounts, one need to create a new user named as
pluralsight using the commands sudo adduser pluralsight (Turnbull, Lieverdink, & Matotek, 2009)

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References
Hunter, L. E., & Allen, R. (2010). Active directory cookbook by Laura E Hunter . New York:
O'Reilly Press.
Turnbull, J., Lieverdink, P., & Matotek, D. (2009). Pro Linux system administration by James
Turnbull . New York: CRS press.