Comments on: Add a User on Ubuntu Server

By: wideyes

wideyes — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 19:09:07 +0000

Wait, let me get this straight – people are complaining because they messed up?

*Perhaps those with slippery fingers should not be dabbling with the command line.*

Is this the root of the complaint? Or have others who correctly used the useradd command still had problems? What are the concrete symptoms (other than user error) that have arisen through use of this command? I’m genuinely curious, because it worked just fine on my system.

By: beanfarmer

beanfarmer — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 08:22:09 +0000

@Erik mkpasswd will create an encrypted password for you, you will have to apt-get whois to install it though then just figure out a way of passing the input password from the user to mkpasswd and the output of mkpasswd back to useradd

By: Gralha

Gralha — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 09:03:24 +0000

Hi there,
as a newbie to Linux (Ubuntu Server 9.04) I would like to know a simple thing… how do I add a user to a Group?

By: Bouffant

Bouffant — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 09:33:28 +0000

Excellent, thanks.

Michael Geary, you shouldn’t blame the tutorial because you didn’t read it properly.

By: Chuck

Chuck — Sun, 31 May 2009 18:39:23 +0000

Tahnx for this help. I hate all the passwords

By: Terje

Terje — Mon, 18 May 2009 08:12:12 +0000

I really burnt myself by using useradd instead of adduser, I think you should put adduser at the top as it is the most “human” way of creating a user, especially for n00bs that often seeks this how-to guides.

By: Erik

Erik — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 21:19:30 +0000

Hey guys, anyone know if there is anyway to pass the password along with the useradd command, instead of having it prompt for a password twice.
Trying to write a web admin page to add users amongst other things.

By: Redis

Redis — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 19:00:48 +0000

@Mehul : You may have your hard drive full. Kde fails to login when it does not have enough space for tmpfiles and gets you back to login screen

By: Basil Kurutz

Basil Kurutz — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 17:55:20 +0000

I am trying to install ubuntu 8.1 and get it to work with a Windows XP computer. Installed, I get to boot both ubuntu and XP, but booting ubuntu my name and passwrod don’t match and I can’t get much further. I only use my computer to write and am not a geek to go much further. ADVISE! BASIL

By: Gaz

Gaz — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 13:30:03 +0000

Michael Greary you are a D&%K H#$&D. You’re the 1 that messed it up no1 else, and anyone else for that matter.

Hopefully you’ve learnt by now that when blindly running linux commands you should read the whole article to make sure it’s what you want first.

Blaming it on other ppl isn’t gonna help either. You should’ve said it by admitting your mistake, asking for a way to rectify it.

(sigh) I bet you have no friends

Nice how to by the way. Helped me with something I was stuck on, so thanks!