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

[Robert Cole]

That's strange...

I just read a post at the Ubuntu Forums which sounded kind of similar--a
new user was added, but there was no sound.  The solution given for this
was to add the user which was created to the audio group.  To do this
you would use the addgroup command as follows:

sudo addgroup username audio

I had a similar issue in a Linux class I took a few months back.  When I
added users, the settings from the first account did not carry over.  I
have posted a thread on the Ubuntu Forums to see if there is a way
around this (as I'm still at an intermediate level with Ubuntu and Linux
in general).  If you'd like, I can e-mail you when I receive an answer
regarding this.

Hopefully the above solution will work for you in this matter, in any case.

Take care.

mike coulombe wrote:
> Ok, this works good, but I get no sound in the new users account.
> How can I add this privilege.
> Mike.
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> ----- (Original Message) -----
> From: "Robert Cole" <rkcole72984 at gmail.com>
> Date: Tuesday, April 17,  at 8:12 PM
> To: Ubuntu Accessibility Mailing List <Ubuntu-accessibility at lists.ubuntu.com>
> Subject: Re: is there a tool for adding new users that works in the terminal
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>
> 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.
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