User and password management

What command do you use to create new users?

useradd

What file contains the default useradd options?

/etc/default/useradd

What file contains the UID/GID selection range?

/etc/login.defs

What directory can be used for provisioning a new user account?

/etc/skel

What does the new user created using useradd do with the skel directory?

It copies all the files from skel into itself

What command do you use to change an existing users info?

usermod

What command can you use to change user passwords?

passwd

What command do you use to generate an encrypted password?

openssl passwd -crypt

What command do you use to delete user accounts?

userdel

What command do you use to lock users accounts? What about unlocking it?

passwd -l, passwd -u

What command do you use to delete the password for a user?

passwd -d