is there a tool for adding new users that works in the terminal

[Robert Cole]

Hello, Mike.

The terminal program for adding users is useradd.  To add a user via the
terminal you woudl do something like:
sudo useradd username

Then, to set a password for the user, you would use the passwd program:
sudo passwd username

Hit enter after typing in the above command and then enter the pasword
for the specified user (you will have to do this twice for confirmation).

Then, to delete a user, simply use the userdel command:
sudo userdel username.

Hope this helps.

Take care.

mike coulombe wrote:
> Hi, I figured out part of the problem I had on the other system yesterday.
> It seems something happened to the homefolder in gnome.
> Strange because I could log in using ctrl  alt f1.
> Anyway my question is does anyone know if there is a terminal program that can be used to create new users.
> the users-admin will not work from the terminal using orca.
> Even when I log in as root it says gtk and I loose speech.
> There must be a tool for the server addition to do this.
> Does anyone know the package I need to install.
> To bad linux doesn't have a restore feature.
> Thanks Mike.
> X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 000734-1, 04/17/2007), Outbound message
> X-Antivirus-Status: Clean
>
>
>