How to create a New User and New User Group in Linux
In Linux,with just few commands you can easily create a new user though command line.In this article I will help you to create a new user and will add the user to new user group.
To create a new User Group
You can use the command groupadd to create a new user group
$ groupadd bloggers
Now lets see how create a new user and add him to this group
To create new User
To create a new user we are going to use useradd command,Lets create a new user with username vivek
$ useradd vivek
Now you can attach other information with this user like User description,Use group and User expiry date.
- -c : To add description about the user
- -e : To set expiry date to the user in the format of mm/dd/yy
- -g : To add user to existing group
For example
$ useradd -c “Blogger and Writer” -g bloggers -e “ 12/24/13 vivek
Now Lets add a new password to the user
$ passwd vivek Changing password for user vivek. New UNIX password:
Visit here to read in detail article about changing user password in Linux
If the user is already created then you will get an error if you use useradd command
$useradd -g bloggers vivek useradd: user vivek exists
We need to use the command usermod in this case
$usermod -g bloggers vivek
Now to verify whether user was successful added,Execute the following command
$ id vivek uid=501(vivek) gid=510(bloggers) groups=511(bloggers)
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2013-04-24 10:30:33
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