Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Administration Unleashed

Summary 219If your company is quite large, you might also want to consider using subdirectorieswithin /home to organize users by departments or groups. For example, /home/eng/ can beused for all users within the engineering department and /home/mktg/ can be used forusers within the marketing department. This can also help the administrator keep track ofdisk quotas for each department if necessary or determine which department has themost storage needs.SummaryThis chapter explains the many tools included with Red Hat Enterprise Linux to successfullymanage users and groups. As you have read, it is much more than just adding andremoving them when employees within the company come and go. If the company islarge, it might be necessary to document a process for managing users and groups such asa naming convention for usernames or structure of home directories.9