user commands

[TheCoop]

i couldnt find any man/info page on this, and i dont know the commands to find the relevant man pages, so here goes:

what are all the basic user commands, and what do they do? eg create a user, add/remove a user to a group, create the home directories/config files
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[Scandium]

useradd/adduser is used to add users to the system

useradd -d /home/scandium -G group1,group2 -m -s /bin/bash $USERNAME

-d specifies the home dir
-G is used for adding the user to groups which the user is also a member of. Each group is separated from the next by a comma, with no intervening whitespace
-m creates the home directory
-s specifies the shell
$USERNAME = the login name of the new user

Afterwards you should do
passwd $USERNAME
to set the user's password

I hope this helps a bit

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[fghellar]

[ZagiFlyer]

I am not saying this sarcastically -- it's how I got started in *nix:

1) ls /usr/bin and /usr/X11R6/bin
2) start reading man pages on what you find there (for starters)
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[pjp]

Followups to Adding users.
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