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Tab Autocomplete for New User

I added a new linux user by doing a useradd -d /var/www/mywebsite.com -m newuser passwd newuser I tested the account by logging into the server with the following command ssh [email protected] ...
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useradd not encrypting passwords in /etc/shadow

I stumbled accross this problem when trying to create new FTP users for vsftpd. Upon creating a new user with the following command and attempting login with FileZilla, I would get an "incorrect ...
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In what condition, should I create a system user instead of a normal user?

From the adduser command, I saw the option --system to create a system user. A system user will use /bin/false and by default belong to nogroup. It also won't copy the /etc/skel to the home directory....
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crontab file of a deleted user

After removing the user, does the crontab added by that user gets removed as well? I am asking this because I can see a user file called "abcuser" in the /var/spool/cron/ When I cat the file, I can ...
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Setting up a user without a password

I'd like to be able to su to another user to run a script with reduced permissions. Unfortunately I have to type the password in every time, is there a way to create a user without needing the ...
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Best way to create a user with no password

What is the good way to create a user with no password? By no password, I mean an account, that would be usable only by the root account using the su/sudo commands (like the "nobody" user used by ...
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useradd with -d option do not create skeleton files

When I create a user with useradd command in centos 5, the home directory is created and its /etc/skel files are copied to that directory but when i give useradd with -doption to some different path ...
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How to specify home directory when creating a user in linux? [closed]

I want to specify the home directory when creating a user, currently i'm using centos 6.7 Is it possible?
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Useradd with given password

I would like to add new user without needed any interaction, so with specified password. I have tried command above: useradd -m -p user -s /bin/bash user So it should be a user with password user, ...
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Ansible adduser issue

Having some trouble with the user module in Ansible. Everything is technically working, just not as I expected. It seems Ansible uses "useradd" versus the newer "adduser" in Ubuntu and I think its ...
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Can't add local user on system using ldap auth for samba [closed]

Trying to add a local user to a CentOS 6.3 system that is using ldap for Samba authentication, but being stymied by the user's existing entry in ldap. [root@samba ~]# adduser wchandy adduser: user '...
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adduser with a read / write to only one directory

I have CentOS with one ssh user which is root. How do I make one more user for my web developer so he can scp files over to /var/www/html ? Its gonna be a static page, so mysql and alike are out of ...
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Ubuntu - adduser / useradd both ask for password to be set, can force a script to bypass this?

I have a script that works fine on Centos because useradd doesnt require a password to be set there and then, but the same script doesnt work on ubuntu servers as it requires this info. I ideally ...
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Pass password to adduser command

Just wondering if it's possible to pass the password I want to use to the adduser command in ubuntu, so that it can be automated. I want to do something like this echo "password" | adduser test ...
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Default Group for new Users

Is there a possibility to define a default group for new Users? I mean I define the group testgroup as the default usergroup and when I add User1 and User2, both new Users would be in the group ...
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Can I automatically create a passworded user with pw adduser on freebsd?

Can I automatically create a passworded user with pw adduser on freebsd? pw useradd [name] [switches] -V etcdir alternate /etc location -C config configuration file ...
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How to create a user really without group in centos 7?

Per this question,I decide to create dummy user to be the owner of website files. Centos 7 offer default group ID 100 when I run useradd -u 508 -M -N -s /sbin/nologin dummyuser1. I want to provide ...
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Ubuntu 12.04: Unable to add or delete a user named 'mysql'

I am trying to install MySql on Ubuntu 12.04 but the installation is failing with the error: "Can't change to run as user 'mysql'. Check if the user 'mysql' exits." So I go ahead type in the command ...
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automatically create subdomain, virtualhost and etc when add user

there is the way, how to automatically create the subdomain, virtualhost for apache, sharing configuration (samba), etc when I add a new user? I want it's work like the web hosting service, when we ...
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debian: creating user with password with one command

I need to create a user with password in a shell script, but passwd wants me to enter the password twice. Is there a way to create a user with password in one command?
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server unexpectedly closed network connection Putty after useradd

After adding user [root@ctxsv-gl4j ~]# useradd -m mtteam [root@ctxsv-gl4j ~]# passwd mtteam Changing password for user mtteam. New password: Retype new password: passwd: all authentication tokens ...
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formatting username [closed]

While adding a user what the best practice for username? firstname.lastname first character of firstname.lastname firstname lastname firstnamelastname I prefer "shantanu" from the following list. ...
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How to use a custom skeleton directory with useradd?

I'm trying to create a new user account using a custom skeleton directory instead of the default /etc/skel. Reading man useradd I'm pretty sure this should work: useradd -m -d /home/foo -k /usr/...
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Lock Home Folder down for specific users (CENT OS)

I am running multiple users on my VPS with CentOS 7 64 bit. And, I want to be able to lock down their home directory. I want them to be able to access all sub folders in that home directory but not be ...
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How can I allow users to reset their Linux user passwords from a web interface? [closed]

I am running SAS Visual Analytics on a cluster for my department. I want the users to be able to set and reset their own password for their user account. Users and Passwords for the application are ...
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Samba users not added untill they logon first? Edit: How do I add users to tdbsam without a password prompt?

I add users to my server with the command useradd -m -p PASS_HASH -s /usr/sbin/nologin USERNAME Then I try to access their samba home share, but it never shows up until I login with the user: root:~$...
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How to fix useradd: Invalid configuration: GID_MIN (7000), GID_MAX (900)

I am running a service as root. This service creates a user and a group but fails at creating a user with the above error how can this be fixed?
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Bash script for setting up FTP

Is it possible / any recommendations on writing a shell script to automate the process of creating a new user/ftp user: Currently the process: sudo useradd -d /ftp-files/user-a -m user-a sudo ...
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creating user with limited access

I add a user on Application server using "useradd" command. /usr/sbin/useradd shantanu This user can connect to mysql service using the following command... mysql -h 10.10.10.111 -uroot -proot@123 ...
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How to make Ubuntu useradd behave like Centos useradd?

I don't remember modifying CentOS useradd to get this behavior. useradd in CentOS creates the user's home directory with all the normal files (like .bashrc). I modified /etc/default/useradd to make ...
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Creating users/groups via PHP

I'm creating an internal tool that needs a bit of cpanel/webmin type functionality, but this isn't a situation where I could use one of those Right now I need to be able to create linux users, groups,...
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Should I set the password when creating new user using useradd command?

I know that when creating a new user by useradd, I could set his password by -p option, but it seems insecure, then what the right way to create a user and set his password? I do this in two steps: ...
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Cannot add user on Centos Server - Input/Output error

Today, on my Centos server I tried to add a user but got the following error: -bash: /usr/sbin/useradd: Input/output error How do i fix it? Thanks UPDATE: var/log/messages is blank df -h also ...
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Debian add user permission

I'm giving my friend a host on my dedicated server. I created a new user for him: Debian server. adduser friend Adding user `friend' ... Adding new group `friend' (1000) ... Adding new user `...
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Script to notify me when users are created

I've created a script from what ive found on the web to notify a SA of users being added to a server. I have it setup with a cron to run the script every 5 mins to monitor differences in the /var/log/...
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Add an aliases user root2, results changing the owner root to root2

Am looking to add an alias for the root user to log to the server with a different password So I followed this advice https://serverfault.com/a/870301/429729 by using the following command useradd -o -...
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Create user without adding subuid range

Is it possible to create a new user e.g. with useradd without adding an entry to /etc/subuid even if the latter file exists? I use /etc/subuid only to for the user namespacing by Docker but don't want ...
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su Authentication failure

OS Ubuntu 18.04 I am trying to add a user, with password, home directory, create a group with the same name, using a bash script. I tried: sudo useradd -U -m -p $(openssl passwd -1 'some_password') ...
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useradd from jenkins user error: useradd: cannot lock /etc/passwd; try again later

I run a shell script (Centos 6.7) from jenkins containing this command, in order import root environment: env -i `cat /home/admin/root_environment.sh` /home/admin/create_user.sh The ...
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Messed up homedir permissions from useradd command

For some reason adding new user with "useradd" create the homedir but with really messed permissions - 002. You read it correct only WRITE permissions for Others. Can someone point me what could have ...
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add system user without login but able to su without asking for password

I created a user "sysuser" with -r option, when trying to su using another non-root user I am prompted for password. As "sysuser" is a system account and should not login, I did not set up a password....
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Add regular unix user to whm to use cPanel [closed]

I have been using useradd to create user account on my CentOS server although cPanel has been installed on the server. For some reasons, I created them by command instead of using WHM. Now, some of ...
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Is it possible to change the directory in which useradd creates its lockfiles?

Useradd creates lock files in /etc/ directory. Is it possible make it create them somewhere else?
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Please help me understand useradd example's syntax [closed]

I've been doing some research on how to add a user to the system so as to have a new ftp user and one of the examples I ran across was this: useradd -m -G users,ftp,wheel joe -s /bin/bash passwd joe ...
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