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i would like to create a new user over unix ,which are these commands to used and which are the directories to handler?
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To add a user:
# useradd <username>

To add a password for that user:
# passwd <username>

/etc/passwd gives you a list of all users.
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useradd -u userid -g groupid -d /export/home/amit -m -s /bin/ksh -c "user account for amit" amit

-u for userid
-g for groupid
-d home dir
-c for comment
-s for default shell

at last the username
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thank you very much , i need to create a user only for FTP , i cant access to telnet
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