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adduser and addgroup are friendlier front ends to useradd, groupadd and usermod.

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What is the difference between adduser and useradd?

What is the difference between the commands adduser and useradd on Ubuntu?
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Run adduser non-interactively

I'd like to use the adduser command to add a user (with disabled password) via a shell script. By default, adduser prompts you for various values (e.g., Full Name). Is there any way to submit these values via command line? Or will I need to useradd…
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How can I create an administrator user from the command line?

I want to create a user with administrative privileges and all the regular setups like home directory. Is there a adduser parameter to give the user sudo powers automatically? What are the default settings for adduser? Will it automatically create…
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How to make user home folder after account creation?

I created a new user with useradd name and forgot to use -d -m to create their home directory. I tried making one, copying the contents of /etc/skel, and chowning everything to the new user. Aliases don't work, such as ll, and I just have a $ at…
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Create the home directory while creating a user

I have added user using the adduser command, but a directory with is new user name is not created in /home, and I'm also not able to run any command with this user. After logging from this user it's only showing($) on the screen using a cli
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How do you change the default shell for ALL USERS to bash?

I want every new user from now on to have bash as their shell by default. I know that to change your own shell to bash, you would use the command "chsh -s /bin/bash", but how do I automatically set all future users' shell to bash by default?
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What do the `--disabled-login` and `--gecos` options of `adduser` command stand for?

Running Ubuntu 12.04, I setup a private git server and created a group called git some time ago. Now I am following a guide to install gitlab and when it came to adding a user to the git group and create it, I saw that I already had it. The command…
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"Failed to create user" due to regular expression error

I'm running Ubuntu 12.10 desktop 32 bit. Currently I have only a user, type administrator. I'd like to create another administrator user but I keep getting the following error: Failed to create…
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password does not work with useradd -p

I am running ubuntu 14.04 LTS. I ran the following command to create a user $sudo useradd -m -p password1 guest_user and then tried to switch to the user with $su guest_user But i could not login with password1 Am i missing something? Am i…
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"Could not chdir to home directory /home/me: No such file or directory"

I am using 12.04 on my server. I created a new user using adduser me and passwd me and added it to sudo. When I log in this is what I see. Could not chdir to home directory /home/me: No such file or directory $ I type bash and it begins to look…
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Proper way to add a user account via bash script

Here's the script code I'm using now: getent group $MYGROUP if [ $? -ne 0 ] ; then sudo su -c "groupadd $MYGROUP" fi sudo su -c "useradd mynewuser -p mypassword -m -g $PRIMARYGRP -G $MYGROUP" This approach works well on openSuse. But there are…
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adduser says user exists when the user does not exist

As the subject says, I'm trying to add a new user. When I run the command, it says the user already exists. But looking in /etc/passwd, /etc/group, and /etc/shadow shows that the user does not exist. Running the command on my local machine works…
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"Admin" user automatically has sudo privileges

I added a user named "admin" to my Ubuntu 14.04LTS server, using adduser. I'm used to having to add a user to the /etc/sudoers file when adding a new user that needs sudo privileges, but this time I didn't. It doesn't appear the 'admin' user…
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Difference between adduser and usermod -G -a

What is the difference between adduser user_name group_name and usermod -G -a user_name group_name At first glance they seems to do the same thing : add a user to a group.
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How to create new user with Public key authentication?

I have Ubuntu Server 14.04 LTS. I have Public key authentication enabled by default. I used the following command to create new user: sudo useradd -m -c "John T." john -s /bin/bash The command apparently created user, user's home folder... but…
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