CLI user administration?

Jordan Miller jmil at hymiegladstone.com
Thu Jan 19 19:06:34 UTC 2006


hmmm, anyone able to create an account on this wiki to edit it?
http://easylinux.info/

the "create an account" page is identical to the login page, and  
there is no button to "create" the new account.




On Jan 19, 2006, at 1:00 PM, Jordan Miller wrote:

> whoa, that was easy (I will add this info to the Wiki I liked to).  
> Thanks to Todd and Tim!
>
> Jordan
>
>
> On Jan 19, 2006, at 11:23 AM, Todd Slater wrote:
>
>> On 1/19/06, Jordan Miller <jmil at hymiegladstone.com> wrote:
>>> hello,
>>>
>>> I have searched Google and all Ubuntu sites I can find. I am sure
>>> there is a simple answer, but I do not know the name of the command.
>>> How can I administer user accounts using only the command line?
>>>
>>> I have a headless Ubuntu install (5.10) serving as a webserver,  
>>> but i
>>> need to add a few admin user accounts. I found the new unofficial
>>> ubuntu guide at: http://easylinux.info/wiki/
>>> Ubuntu#Users_Administration , but alas, the instructions require  
>>> a GUI.
>>
>> man useradd
>> man groupadd
>> user[tab][tab]
>> group[tab][tab]
>>
>> HTH,
>> Todd
>>
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