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# 1  
Old 05-30-2008
Creating New Users in UNIX Machine !!!
Hi

How to create users in the UNIX machine ....

I am the ROOT and i want to create users with normal privileges .

a) Please give the sequence of commands which i need to use.

b) How to set their userid and passwords
# 2  
Old 05-30-2008
Simple user

Code:
login as root 
adduser <username> 
-- this is sometimes useradd...you have to watch out depending on your flavour of unix
passwd <username> 
-- change the passwd for the user you have just added

.


More complex user
Code:
login as root 
adduser <username> -c <comment> -d <home directory of user> -g <primary group of this user> -G <a comma delimited list of groups to which this user belongs> -m -k <directory to make this new directory look like> -s <users shell>

passwd <username> 
-- change the passwd for the user you have just added

.


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# 3  
Old 05-30-2008
My I also suggest doing a "man" or "info" on the useradd command. My experience has shown that adduser is usually a symlink or alias to useradd.
# 4  
Old 07-14-2008
useradd is easier to use anyways. just prompts you for input.
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