User Management- Linux
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- useradd: standard system command to add a user to the system.
- adduser: script to add a user to the system.
- userdel: delete a user account and optionally related files.
- addgroup: script to add a group to the system.
- delgroup: remove a group from the system.
- usermod: modify a user account.
Adding Users to the System
The following hidden files are copied into the user’s home directory, and will be used to provide environment variables for his/her user session.
- .bash_logout
- .bash_profile
- .bashrc
adduser vs useradd
Adduser is not a standard Linux command. Adduser is not available on some Linux distributions. On others, it is a soft link to useradd. While on some others, it is a Perl script.
Both commands have a man page on most linux distributions
- adduser, addgroup - add a user or group to the system
- useradd - create a new user or update default new user information
