How to create a user in Ubuntu

Overview The following article will demonstrate the steps on how to create a user in Ubuntu. Also, we’ll be demonstrating how to delete user in Ubuntu and all actions we’ll be executed in terminal. Knowing how to create a user in Ubuntu and how to delete a user is one of the basic skills a Linux user(admin) should know and still one of the most important skills as well to have(user management). Reason behind this is, because in every multi user operating system(Linux as well) there are and there should be a sets of different user permissions and different user groups. This is because of security reasons. ...

October 14, 2021 · 5 min · 938 words · MarkoN

How to create groups in Linux

Overview The following post will demonstrate the steps how to create groups in Linux as well as how to delete groups in Linux and how to add user to the group and how to remove a user from the group. This is a continuation of our Linux user management post series. In one of our earlier posts, we covered the process how to create and delete users in Linux via terminal and how to add sudo privileges to the user(you can check out these procedures here - add sudo privileges, create a user). ...

October 8, 2021 · 4 min · 813 words · MarkoN