• SamsonSeinfelder@feddit.de
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    1 year ago

    useradd - I just wanted to give a friend my notebook for a python lecture and thought I could just add him as a new user. Apparently not by default.

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      1 year ago

      Ran into this some time ago and learned that there is a more rudimentary command adduser instead but it does not do things like home folder creation

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      1 year ago

      Seems like it would have to exist to create your initial login, unless you only had a root user

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          1 year ago

          I haven’t used that since the 90s on HP Unix. Do you get to set default permissions for file creation there, and also add user groups?