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ADD a user - Digerati - 2003-12-15
To add a user to your system bring up a terminal window and issue these commands:
To add a user use useradd [username]
then password the name by using passwd like
passwd [username]
All this must be carried out as super user
To become a super user just type su - and enter the root password.
Ex.
[digerati@rh9 /]$su -
password:
[digerati@rh9 root]# useradd scrote
[digerati@rh9 root]# passwd scrote
Changing password for user scrote.
New password:
Retype new password:
passwd: all authentication tokens updated successfully.
All done.
ADD a user - kZo - 2003-12-15
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FYI:
[digerati@rh9 root]# useradd -g groupname user
The -g specifies a group that you'd like to add the user to. Very helpful to have this before you create the user.
For instance:
[v702623@itmail]# useradd -g popusers newuser
creates the user "newuser" and adds him to the group popusers which have access to my server to use the pop3 email.