This page last modified: Feb 01 2005
You must be logged in as root. On Fedora, useradd and adduser are synonymous. # Use this command to add an account (a user, aka login). # Create user mst3k, and create /home/mst3k and populate it. # Create matching group also (apparently implicit for Red Hat user add). useradd -m mst3k # Set the new uid (and gid) to 500. Use this if you are creating an # account for a user who has an exisiting account on another machine # and you want the uid/gid to match. Matching helps solve ownership issues # when moving files between different machines. useradd -m -u 500 mst3k