User Management

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Which term describes the operating system function that handles logins and passwords and decides what each person using the computer is allowed to do?: User management
Which term describes a user who can add and remove accounts and change the access rights of every other user?: System administrator
What is meant by read-only access?: A user is allowed to open and view a file but cannot change or delete it
What is meant by a user login?: A person types a username and password so the operating system can identify them
Where does an operating system keep the usernames and passwords of the people who can use the computer?: In a file or database
What are administrator privileges?: Access rights that let a user manage accounts and install programs
What is meant by a user account?: The username, password and access rights of one person
Why does an operating system store user passwords in an encrypted form?: So that anyone who reads the file cannot understand them
Why should each user of a shared computer be able to see only their own files?: So that each user's files remain private
Which of these is a user management task carried out by an operating system?: Deciding which files a user may open
What are access rights?: The actions a user is allowed to carry out
An administrator sets a maximum amount of disk space that each user can use. Why is this done?: To share out the limited storage on the computer
On a school network, which user should be allowed to install new software on the computers?: The system administrator
Which statement about access rights on a computer is correct?: Different users can be given different levels of access
A new employee joins a company. What must the system administrator do so that the employee can log in to a computer?: Create a user account for the employee
Two users share a computer, but only one of them is allowed to open the company's accounts program. How is this achieved?: The two users have different access rights
A member of staff leaves a company. Why should the system administrator delete that member of staff's user account?: So that the former member of staff cannot log in
A student joins a school's editing club and now needs to be able to change files in the club's shared folder. What should the system administrator do?: Change the access rights of the student's account
Why is it a problem if every user of a computer is given full access rights to all of the files?: Any user could change or delete another user's files
A user logs in to a computer. How does the operating system know which files and programs that user can open?: It uses the access rights stored for the user's account

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