Some more useful user-management commands (also limited to local users):
To add a new user you can use:
sudo adduser new_username
or:
sudo useradd new_username
See also: What is the difference between adduser and useradd?
To remove/delete a user, first you can use:
sudo userdel username
Then you may want to delete the home directory for the deleted user account :
sudo rm -r /home/username
(Please use with caution the above command!)
To modify the username of a user:
usermod -l new_username old_username
To change the password for a user:
sudo passwd username
To change the shell for a user:
sudo chsh username
To change the details for a user (for example real name):
sudo chfn username
And, of course, see also: man adduser
, man useradd
, man userdel
… and so on.
To add a user to the sudo
group:
usermod -aG sudo username
Source: A command to list all users? And how to add, delete, modify users? – Ask Ubuntu
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