is there a tool for adding new users that works in the terminal

[Robert Cole]

I'm not sure how much help this will be, but there is an A-Z Index of
commands listed here:
http://www.ss64.com/bash/

This page is what I kind of used to get started in Linux.  There are
links for some commands which go into more detail.

Another good site I used is:
http://www.manpages.com/

I'm still trying to find one which is more suited for Ubuntu as these
pages do not mention apt-get.  But a lot of the other commans listed are
available on pretty much any Linux distribution, such as useradd,
userdel, etc.

Hope this helps.

Take care.

mike coulombe wrote:
> Hi, thanks that worked.
> Maybe someday there will be a guide telling about all of these terminal commands.
> Mike.
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> ----- (Original Message) -----
> From: "Robert Cole" <rkcole72984 at gmail.com>
> Date: Tuesday, April 17,  at 10:29 PM
> To: Ubuntu Accessibility Mailing List <Ubuntu-accessibility at lists.ubuntu.com>
> Subject: Re: is there a tool for adding new users that works in the terminal
>
>
> That's strange...
>
> I just read a post at the Ubuntu Forums which sounded kind of similar--a
> new user was added, but there was no sound.  The solution given for this
> was to add the user which was created to the audio group.  To do this
> you would use the addgroup command as follows:
>
> sudo addgroup username audio
>
> I had a similar issue in a Linux class I took a few months back.  When I
> added users, the settings from the first account did not carry over.  I
> have posted a thread on the Ubuntu Forums to see if there is a way
> around this (as I'm still at an intermediate level with Ubuntu and Linux
> in general).  If you'd like, I can e-mail you when I receive an answer
> regarding this.
>
> Hopefully the above solution will work for you in this matter, in any case.
>
> Take care.
>
> mike coulombe wrote:
>   
>> Ok, this works good, but I get no sound in the new users account.
>> How can I add this privilege.
>> Mike.
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>> ----- (Original Message) -----
>> From: "Robert Cole" <rkcole72984 at gmail.com>
>> Date: Tuesday, April 17,  at 8:12 PM
>> To: Ubuntu Accessibility Mailing List <Ubuntu-accessibility at lists.ubuntu.com>
>> Subject: Re: is there a tool for adding new users that works in the terminal
>>
>>
>> Hello, Mike.
>>
>> The terminal program for adding users is useradd.  To add a user via the
>> terminal you woudl do something like:
>> sudo useradd username
>>
>> Then, to set a password for the user, you would use the passwd program:
>> sudo passwd username
>>
>> Hit enter after typing in the above command and then enter the pasword
>> for the specified user (you will have to do this twice for confirmation).
>>
>> Then, to delete a user, simply use the userdel command:
>> sudo userdel username.
>>
>> Hope this helps.
>>
>> Take care.
>>
>> mike coulombe wrote:
>>  
>>     
>>> Hi, I figured out part of the problem I had on the other system yesterday.
>>> It seems something happened to the homefolder in gnome.
>>> Strange because I could log in using ctrl  alt f1.
>>> Anyway my question is does anyone know if there is a terminal program that can be used to create new users.
>>> the users-admin will not work from the terminal using orca.
>>> Even when I log in as root it says gtk and I loose speech.
>>> There must be a tool for the server addition to do this.
>>> Does anyone know the package I need to install.
>>> To bad linux doesn't have a restore feature.
>>> Thanks Mike.
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