Linux Study Guide - Common Administrative Tasks
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| /etc/cups/cupsd.conf | A file that holds daemon configuration for the cups daemon.
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| /etc/cups/printers.conf | A file that holds printer configuration for the cups daemon.
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| /etc/default/useradd | A file that contains default values for user creation.
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| /etc/group | The file that contains group definitions and memberships.
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| /etc/login.defs | A file that contains default values for user creation.
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| /etc/logrotate.conf | The file used by the logrotate utility to specify rotation parameters for log files.
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| /etc/passwd | The file that contains user account information.
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| /etc/shadow | The file that contains the encrypted password as well as password and account expiry parameters for each user account.
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| /etc/skel | A directory that contains files that are copied to all new users’ home directories upon creation.
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| /etc/syslog.conf | The file that specifies the events for which the System Log Daemon listens and the log files to which it saves the events.
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| /var/log | A directory that contains most log files on a Linux system.
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| accepting printer | A printer that accepts print jobs into the print queue.
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| Authentication | The act of verifying a user’s identity by comparing a user name and password with a system database (/etc/passwd and /etc/shadow).
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| cancel command | The command used to remove print jobs from the print queue in the CUPS print system.
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| chage command | The command used to modify password expiry information for user accounts.
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| chfn command | The command used to change the GECOS for a user.
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| chsh command | The command used to change a valid shell to an invalid shell.
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| Common Unix Printing System (CUPS) | The printing system commonly used on Linux computers.
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| cups daemon (cupsd) | The daemon responsible for printing in the CUPS printing system.
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| cupsaccept command | The command used to allow a printer to accept jobs into the print queue.
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| cupsdisable command | The command used to prevent print jobs from leaving the print queue.
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| cupsenable command | The command used to allow print jobs to leave the print queue.
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| cupsreject command | The command used to force a printer to reject jobs from entering the print queue.
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| disabled printer | A printer that does not send print jobs from the print queue to a printer.
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| enabled printer | A printer that sends print jobs from the print queue to a printer.
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| Facility | The area of the system from which information is gathered when logging system events.
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| General Electric Comprehensive Operating System (GECOS) | The field in the /etc/passwd file that contains a description of the user account.
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| Group Identifier (GID) | A unique number given to each group.
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| groupadd command | The command used to add a group to the system.
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| groupdel command | The command used to delete a group from the system.
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| groupmod command | The command used to modify the name or GID of a group on the system.
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| groups command | The command that lists group membership for a user.
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| id command | The command that lists UIDs for a user and the GIDs for the groups that the same user belongs to.
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| Internet Printing Protocol (IPP) | A printing protocol that can be used to send print jobs across a TCP/IP network, such as the Internet, using HTTP or HTTPS.
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| Line Printer Daemon (LPD) | A printing system typically used on legacy Linux computers.
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| lock an account | To make an account temporarily unusable by altering the password information for it stored on the system.
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| log file | A file containing information about the Linux system.
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