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Adding Users Via Command Line in Linux

Posted by Anthony on January 12th, 2009

User management via command line in Linux is a relatively new task to me. It’s fairly simple when using Webmin or an equivalent GUI, but straight old command line seems more imposing.

Fortunately, it’s really pretty simple, but you must have administrative/root user rights on the system. This is most likely in the form of sudo:

Open a terminal window to get to a command line
If you are not working directly on the computer running the system, SSH to that computer and log in
type: sudo /usr/sbin/adduser new-user-name
type in the sudo password when prompted

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