Linux Users and File Types— Lesson 3

Yusif Morsy
3 min readOct 7, 2020
The Power Of Linux

Access the root user

Go back to the user

Access the location for all users and passwords

Add/remove user

Access user/Groups

Add user/group

Add user to a group as a secondary group

File type

1- -regular or plain file , use touch command to create any filename.

2- d directory use mkdir command to create any directory

3- c Character device file users and programs can communicate with the hardware.

4- b Block Device file similar to character devices.

5 -s Local sockets file communication between processes.

6- p Named Pipes file Similar to Local sockets, communication between two local processes. T created by mknod command

7- l Symbolic Links file two types of symbolic links:hard links,soft links, use ln -s command to create soft link

Please add your comments or send an email to the author at yamors01@louisville.edu. See you next lesson(4)

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