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Practical Linux
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Practical Linux

by M. Drew Streib, Michael Turner, John Ray, Bill Ball
June 2000
Beginner
704 pages
14h 55m
English
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Adding, Editing, and Deleting Users Using the Command Line

Unfortunately, it isn't always possible to use a graphical tool such as usercfg to manipulate users. In these instances, you can manipulate users with the command-line versions of using the tools called useradd, usermod, and userdel for adding, modifying, and deleting users, respectively.

Adding Users with useradd

To add a user with the useradd command,log in to the root account and enter the following command:

[root@insocoxygen /root]# useradd -d homedir -s /bin/tcsh [ic]
                  -c "User's Real Name" newlogin

homedir is the home directory of the user being created, set by the -d option. User's Real Name is the real name of the user, added using the comment, -c, flag. (Be sure to have the ...

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