Re: Making new accounts


Subject: Re: Making new accounts
From: Tim Long (tim.long@ukonline.co.uk)
Date: Mon Mar 06 2000 - 03:25:36 MST


Tim Long wrote:

> At the terminal prompt, type useradd yourname, where yourname is your
> name and press return. Then type passwd youname, you will be prompted
> to enter a password, twice, then you should get 'passwd, all
> authentication tokens updated successfully'.
> Anew folder with called yourname will be added to the /home directory.
> You can change to root in a terminal at any time by ttyping su root
> and entering root password.
>
>
> I am pleased to be of help as I am a new ydl user too.
>
>
>
> Tim

> Geof Gowan wrote:
>
>> Umm, how do I make a new account? I feel silly always logging in as
>> root.
>>
>> This may seem like a simple question, but I've looked around for a
>> couple
>> of days for a HOWTO or man page on this and, since I'm not even sure
>> what
>> the command is, I have had no luck.
>>
>> Thanks in advance,
>>
>> -Geof
>>
>> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>> Geof Gowan geofg@clas.ufl.edu
>> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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