

$ grep pratham /etc/passwdĪdditionally, if you wish to delete their home directory, use the -remove-home option. Now, if you check the /etc/passwd file, you will notice that the user does not exist. Warning: group `pratham' has no more members. Let us try deleting the user that was previously created.
#UBUNTU ADD USER PASSWORD#
The user password can be changed later as well. Did you notice that I did not provide details like the room number, work phone, etc and the user was still created? Except for the user's password, everything else is optional. Once the details are provided, a new user will be created. Ĭhanging the user information for prathamĮnter the new value, or press ENTER for the default $ sudo adduser prathamĪdding new user `pratham' (1001) with group `pratham'. Let us try creating a new user called 'pratham'. The contents of /etc/skel include the following files:Įnough talk. Additional information, if provided will be recorded.Contents of /etc/skel will be copied to the user's home directory.An empty home directory for the user will be created.The user will be added to the new group.The new group will be given a unique GID (group id).

A new group will be created with the same name as the user.

The newly created user will be given a unique UID (user ID).When the adduser command is executed, the following things are done automatically: The syntax for the adduser command is as follows: sudo adduser USERNAMEĪs you can see, you need to be a sudoer or root to run this command. It creates a user with a password and home directory by default. It is actually a Perl script that uses the standard useradd command. Add a new user in UbuntuĪdding a new user to an Ubuntu system can be easily achieved by the adduser command. Read more on the difference between useradd and adduser commands. However, the adduser and deluser commands in Ubuntu are more user-friendly. Note: This script supports all linux OSs like Redhat, Centos, Ubuntu, suse, kali, Arch, Bitname, BSD.etc /bin/bash author: bablish jaiswal purpos: Linux user creation with a storng password clear echo 'Hi, I am a function to create sudo user with strong password. The standard Linux commands for adding and removing users are useradd and userdel respectively. Kindly run below script with sudo permission for creating a user by script.
