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Reading the passwd file

This is 1 line in the passwd file associated with a human user

The

Users

Username

x indicates

Account has

a password

in the

shadow file

The User ID

of the User

UID

The Group

ID of the

User - GID

User Information

Entered during the

Add user process

Some of this

Cannot be entered

From the GUI

Add user option

The Users home

Directory

The Shell

Environment

Being used

By the User

This is a colon : delimited file which could be dumped into a spreadsheet to evaluate the information

I was the first user added during installation but my User ID is 1000, Why is that?