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To add a user to your system bring up a terminal window and issue these commands:

 

To add a user use useradd [username]

then password the name by using passwd like

passwd [username]

All this must be carried out as super user

 

To become a super user just type su - and enter the root password.

Ex.

[digerati@rh9 /]$su -

password:

[digerati@rh9 root]# useradd scrote

[digerati@rh9 root]# passwd scrote

Changing password for user scrote.

New password:

Retype new password:

passwd: all authentication tokens updated successfully.

 

All done.

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FYI:

 

[digerati@rh9 root]# useradd -g groupname user

 

The -g specifies a group that you'd like to add the user to. Very helpful to have this before you create the user.

 

For instance:

 

[v702623@itmail]# useradd -g popusers newuser

 

creates the user "newuser" and adds him to the group popusers which have access to my server to use the pop3 email.

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