Adding users...

philfighter · 07-23-2001, 10:32 PM

I know how to add users in the Yast mask but...how do you do it from the command line?

sancho5 · 07-23-2001, 10:37 PM

I'm assuming you are able to use the useradd command, being in bash. If Suse is like the distros I'm used to, you can run
#useradd <name>
to add that user to the system. Run
#passwd <name> to give them a login password to.

Hope that's what you were wondering.

philfighter · 07-23-2001, 10:43 PM

thanks sancho!

sancho5 · 07-23-2001, 10:48 PM

Some other useful stuff, along those lines:

userdel -r <username> to delete the user *and thier home directory* from the system

usermod <options> <username> to change certain things about their account, e.g. group membership, etc.