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Create and delete local user accounts

Create and delete local user accounts - Linux Tutorial

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Create and delete local user accounts

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- [Instructor] You might remember from another video in this course that user accounts are stored in /etc/passwd. Passwords and account aging are stored in /etc/shadow. And other account defaults are stored in /etc/login.defs and /etc/default/useradd. /etc/default/useradd also specifies our skeleton directory. The skeleton directory contains the files that are copied to each user's home directory automatically. We'll observe this in a moment. The process of creating users in Linux is pretty straightforward. Let's go a terminal and type in sudo useradd with no arguments. Type in sudo useradd and hit Enter. Now type in your password and hit Enter again. Here we can see the many options for useradd. Thanks to the stored defaults, we don't have to specify any options to create a user. Any options that we leave out are taken from the system-wide defaults. Let's create a new user by typing in sudo useradd bob, and hit…

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