User Management: Provision a Service Account

MediumLinux+ Exam Prep15-20 min

The brief

A new service account must be provisioned to an exact specification. Read /root/case/assignment.env for the account: the username (NEWUSER), the numeric UID it must have (NEWUID), its primary group (PRIMARY_GRP), an additional (supplementary) group it must belong to (SUPP_GRP), and its login shell (LOGIN_SHELL). Both groups already exist. Create the account so all five facts hold. Grading reads the live account databases (/etc/passwd, /etc/group), so the account itself must be correct.

What you'll do

Create the account with the exact assigned UID
Set its primary group and add the supplementary group
Set the assigned login shell

Hands-on lab: you work on a real Linux box in your browser, graded on the machine's actual state.