How to create user in Linux
How to create user in Linux ?
Today we will see in this post that how to create user and group in Linux through command line. It's very easy to create, change, modify and delete user and group information. Please read full articles if you face any problem regarding this articles so please leave comments or drop email within 24 hours you will get reply by our team.
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About Users
To create an user:
[root@localhost ONS]# useradd test
To set password on a user:
[root@localhost ONS]# passwd test
Changing password for user test.
New password:
Retype new password:
passwd: all authentication tokens updated successfully.
To add comment user:
[root@localhost ONS]# useradd -c “IT” test
To set/Change UID on user:
[root@localhost ONS]# useradd -u 0786 test
To set/change directory of user:
[root@localhost ONS]# useradd –d /home/test test
To add a user to a primary group and supplementary group:
[root@localhost ONS]# useradd -g “head” -G “faculty” test
To Lock the user account:
[root@localhost ONS]# passwd -L test
Locking password for user test.
passwd: Success
To unlock the user account:
[root@localhost ONS]# passwd -U test
Unlocking password for user test.
passwd: Success
To change login name of the user:
[root@localhost ONS]# usermod -l “test1” test
To remove/delete user with his home directory:
[root@localhost ONS]# userdel -r test
To delete/remove user only:
[root@localhost ONS]# userdel test
To set maximum days of change password:
[root@localhost ONS]# passwd -x 30 test
To set minimum days of change password:
[root@localhost ONS]# passwd -n 3 test
To set warning days to change password:
[root@localhost ONS]# passwd -w 25 test
To set all command in one command:
[root@localhost ONS]# passwd -x 30 -n 3 -w 25 test
To check user information
To check the user information such as UID, Home directory, login shell etc:
[root@localhost ONS]# vi /etc/passwd
To check the all information about user password information:
[root@localhost ONS]# vi /etc/shadow
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