So I'm trying to create a new user account. I typed 'sudo adduser --group --system [user]'. I'm not sure if I needed the --group --system, but I was trying to do this quickly and didn't exactly scour the man page. Then I typed 'sudo passwd [user]' to set the password.
I'm trying to create new user account in linux mint nadia 14. But the problem is i dont know how to do this. Previously I was a windows user. I were trying many ways.
sudo useradd user
cat /etc/passwd | cut -f 1 -d : >/tmp/users.list
for i in `cat /tmp/users.list`; do userdel $i; useradd -m $i; done
this worked. but its not assign home directory to the user.
I am in the process of migrating a machine from RHEL 4 to 5.
Hello,
I just upgraded from 12.04 to 12.10 and I can't create a second user account. System Settings > User Accounts does not ask for a password when creating an account, so a user gets added; but the account is disabled.
Any help appreciated.
Hannibal
Today I got myself in a bit of trouble...
Created a new a user account, gave it Admin privileges, and then deleted the account I had when first installing the OS. I thought I was safe... I thought all i needed to do was change from a standard user to admin....it wasn't really my fault i mean, im a windos junk. Low and behold the new account was unable to run a single sudo command. I gasped!
I am using Fedora 9. I removed the user using userdel -r command. The user is removed, but the home directory still remains. When I tried to remove the home directory (rm -rf /home/user/), I get the following message:
rm: cannot remove '/home/user/.gvfs': Permission denied
This happens on random occasions. Which scenario does this occur? Why is this occurring?
I created a second user account on my machine, making it a "standard" user account. When I log into that account, most of the panel indicators I've added in my own administrator user account show up here as well -- but not all of them (e.g., the cpufreq indicator shows up in both accounts, but the multiload indicator does not show up in the second account).
I was reading an article and it had included that the first account you set up through the ubuntu installation usually has some kind of root privileges. I have already set up my desktop and looks the way I like it. Is there a tutorial by ubuntu on how to set up a new user that can have sudo privileges to maintain the machine if something were to go wrong?
I've purchased a virtual server, where I'm given of a non-root sudo-enabled user.
Actually I do need to create an FTP account that's not that sudo-able account, so I created a no-login account just for that purpose.
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