![]() You will be asked for your sudo password. Once you are in a terminal to create a new user you will type “ adduser” and it’s “username”. The “ adduser” command will create a new user with a home directory automatically, and ask to set the password for the new user as well, create a default user settings(adding user details in “ /etc/passwd” file, add a unique user ID, etc). We’ll first create a new user with the “ adduser” command. Create a new sudo user in Linux How to create a user with adduser command That process is covered in this post and can be checked were we covered steps how to create user groups and add and remove user to a group/from a group. Next line of actions in user management is managing user groups. This post is a starter of our user management in Linux post series. To be able to create and remove users, you need to be logged in as root or as a user with sudo privileges. They behave differently and will cover both of them. There are differences between these two commands. You can also create a new sudo user with the command – “ useradd“. The commands we’ll be using to run these actions are – “ adduser” and “ deluser“. In this article we will cover how to create a new sudo user in Linux via terminal. Sometimes you might need to have a user will act only as a service account(not having a home folder, no access to the shell and only be able to run specific apps and tools). It’s always advisable to have multiple users on your system. You don’t want to have one user managing the entire system which runs on a production environment(meaning on servers). This is of course because of security reasons. ![]() Reason behind this is, because in every multi user operating system(Linux as well) there are and there should be a sets of different user permissions and different user groups. Knowing how to create a user in Linux is one of the basic skills a Linux user(admin) should know and still one of the most important skills as well to have(user management). ![]() In this article we’ll be demonstrating multiple methods on how to create a new sudo user in Linux how to delete a sudo user in Linux too. ![]()
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