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I was looking through the useradd, adduser, and usermod man pages. I was trying to find a way to add the users name but I did not see the option ...
  1. 02-06-2010 #1
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    adding user names

    I was looking through the useradd, adduser, and usermod man pages. I was trying to find a way to add the users name but I did not see the option for doing so. Any ideas how?
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    Are you just trying to add another user? If so, open a terminal and type adduser and you should be prompted for the name of the user and then for a password. I'm not using Ubuntu but this should work or are you trying to add a user to a group?
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    In Ubuntu you use
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    adduser TheNewUserName
    you will be prompted for all other information. You can use command line switches to specify home directory, user group and so on.
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    I prefer adduser because its more interactive than useradd. Ubuntu also has graphical tools for managing users that are located somewhere in the System menu.
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    Quote Originally Posted by daark.child View Post
    I prefer adduser because its more interactive than useradd.
    Same here... adduser has always felt more intuitive than useradd, at least in my own mind.
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    By user names I mean their first names. The account was already created but I needed to modify it so that we know who they were but not what their login name was.
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    In that case you can use the usermod command e.g.
    Code:
    usermod -c "FirstName LastName" someuser
    Another option would be to use the chfn command e.g.
    Code:
    chfn -f Full Name
    To find our more about chfn look at its manual as well as that for the "finger" command.
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