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by Pradeep Kumar · Published February 11, 2016 · Updated February 17, 2019

User administration is one of the important task of Linux Share

system administrator. Local accounts or users in Linux like


operating system is managed by useradd, usermod,
userdel, chage and passwd commands.
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useradd command is used to create new accounts in
Linux 
usermod command used to modify the existing
accounts in linux 
userdel command is used to delete local account in

linux
passwd command used assign password to local
accounts or users. 
chage comamnd is used to view & modify users
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Syntax of ‘useradd’ command
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Syntax of passwd Command :
# passwd <username_or_login>

For more details on passwd command please refer ‘10

passwd command examples in Linux‘

In this article we will discuss different examples of user

administration on CentOS 7 & RHEL 7.

Example:1 Create a local account &

assign password.
User the below syntax to create and assign to the
username.

# useradd <username> ; echo -e "

<newpassword>\n<newpassword>" | passwd username

Let’s create a username ‘harry’ and assign password.

[root@linuxtechi ~]# useradd harry ; echo -e

"Roxicant@123#\nRoxicant@123#" | passwd harry
Changing password for user harry.
New password: Retype new password: passwd: all
authentication tokens updated successfully.
[root@linuxtechi ~]#

Note : When a user is created in Linux followings are

updated:

A home directory is created under

‘/home/<username>’
User info is updated in ‘/etc/passwd’ file
Group Information is stored in ‘/etc/group’
password info is updated in ‘/etc/shadow’ file.
File for user’s email is created under
‘/var/spool/mail/<username>’

Example:2 Create a user with customize

settings
Let’s create a user with following options :

UID = 2000
GID = 5000
Comments = ‘Admin Account of SAP’
Home Directory = /opt/sap

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