User Management - Revision history

Andrew at 17:25, 27 March 2010

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See ''man adduser''

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 <pre>
 sudo adduser --system --no-create-home --group userid
 </pre>

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	sudo adduser user group		sudo adduser user group
	</pre>		</pre>
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		+	To add a picture for a user (which will be displayed in the login screen, select System->Preferences->About Me

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	See ''man adduser'' for more options. NB. Maximum username length is 8 chars - although this script won't enforce it, it will stop many processes/tools from displaying the username properly.		See ''man adduser'' for more options. NB. Maximum username length is 8 chars - although this script won't enforce it, it will stop many processes/tools from displaying the username properly.
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		+	To add a user to an existing group:
		+	<pre>
		+	sudo adduser user group
		+	</pre>

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 To add a system user suitable for running daemon processes, run:
 <pre>
-adduser --system --no-create-home --group userid
+sudo adduser --system --no-create-home --group userid
 </pre>
 See ''man adduser'' for more options. NB. Maximum username length is 8 chars - although this script won't enforce it, it will stop many processes/tools from displaying the username properly.

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	</pre>		</pre>

−	See ''man adduser'' for more options.	+	See ''man adduser'' for more options. NB. Maximum username length is 8 chars - although this script won't enforce it, it will stop many processes/tools from displaying the username properly.

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−	See ''man adduser''	+	To add a system user suitable for running daemon processes, run:
		+	<pre>
		+	adduser --system --no-create-home --group userid
		+	</pre>
		+
		+	See ''man adduser'' for more options.