Creating a new user

[kruptof]

i am using Debian Sarge...........can any body tell me how to create a new user.

[oz]

Just run useradd or adduser from command line as root. That should do it. You can read up on the commands with "man adduser" or "man useradd".

[antidrugue]

Exactly like Ozar said.

More precisely, if you want to create a user with "username" as username for "Name FamilyName", you can do it in 2 commands :

useradd -d /home/username -s /bin/bash -c "Name FamilyName" username

And then :

mkdir /home/username && chown username /home/username && passwd username

Be sure to replace every occurance of "username" with the desired username and "Name FamilyName" with the real name. Of course those 2 commands must be typed as root.

Then you'll have to use the "adduser" command to make that new user part of the necessary groups (for example : floppy, cdrom, audio, etc.).

[SweetLou]

command line is easy but if you are more comfortable with a gui, you could use the app in the menu. Desktop/Administration/Users and Groups at least in Gnome it is like that. It is also under the Debian menu, Debian/Apps/System/User Accounts Admin.

[divya b dasar]

i am very new to Linux. even i tired to add new user to Linux machine using terminal command. this is how i did.. thinking it might help other im showin the command used by me to create an account..

somu@deer-desktop:~$ sudo adduser divya
Adding user `divya' ...
Adding new group `divya' (1002) ...
Adding new user `divya' (1004) with group `divya' ...
Creating home directory `/home/divya' ...
Copying files from `/etc/skel' ...

Enter new UNIX password:
Retype new UNIX password:
passwd: password updated successfully
Changing the user information for divya
Enter the new value, or press ENTER for the default
Full Name []: divya
Room Number []:
Work Phone []:
Home Phone []:
Other []:
Is the information correct? [y/N] y

This is how i was able to create new account... hope it might help others..