Managing the system for system administrators

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SA users are primarily responsible for the aspects of the system administration that are not related to security.

The responsibilities of SA users include the following:

  • Adding, removing, and maintaining user accounts
  • Sharing with the ISSO user the task of ensuring the internal integrity of system software and filesystems
  • Creating and maintaining file systems. This includes planning disk layout, partitioning disks and changing disk partition sizes, allocating swap space and space for system and user directories, monitoring filesystem usage, detecting and handling bad disk blocks, and managing filesystem space by moving, deleting, archiving, or compressing files and file systems.
  • Identifying and reporting system problems by analyzing error data and testing system components such as filesystems, system memory, and devices.