• useradd raj (User raj is created)
• passwd raj (Password to user raj be given)
• cat /etc/passwd (Displays the account details of the users)
• cat /etc/group (Displays the group details)
• groupadd test (Creates a group but no directory is created)
• mkdir tst ( A directory tst is created)
• chgrp test /home/tst (Directory is assigned to group test)
• usermod –G g1 t1 (t1 user and g1 is the group t1 is made the member of g1)
• usermod –a –G g2 t1 (-a append, so user t1 is the member of both g1 and g2 group)
• userdel raj (Deletes the user raj but home directory of raj not deleted)
• rm –r raj (Deletes the directory raj emptying all its contents)
• userdel –r raj (Deletes user with the home directory)
• groupdel muroor (Deletes the group muroor)
• groupmod -g with the new ID number and the group name (Change the group ID or group name)
• groupmod -n udupi muroor (Change the name of a group, use the -n option. The muroor group has its name changed to udupi )

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