Ch. 33. Creating accounts with useradd.

vam

I run ubuntu 14.04.

This course page notes that 'useradd' creates home directory and adds login shell entry to /etc/passwd, but it doesn't.

And when I invoke 'man useradd' it gives

...
DESCRIPTION
useradd is a low level utility for adding users. On Debian, administrators should usually use adduser(8) instead.
...

So maybe it is a typo? Does useradd on non-debian systems behave differently?

rchenzheng

I believe your machine is right as usually there are distros differences.

However, I can confirm that useradd does work in Centos 7

luisviveropena

Hi vam,

What is the command you are using, please? So I can try it on my side.

Thanks,
Luis.

Elyas

I used both Ubuntu 14.04 and 15.04.

In fact

useradd user1

only creates a new user named user1, but does not create the home directory from the skeleton. In the man page they say you need to add a param:

useradd -m user1

Reading the man page was helpful in this case.

luisviveropena

Well, you were able to solve it, that's good As it has been said, there are some few differences between distros.

Regards,
Luis.

dbuday

Excuse me for intruding, but instead of opening new topic, let me hook up on this one as this is next step in this Lab.

Problem:

After creation on new user, exercise is to try 'ssh user1@localhost', which should fail because there is no password set - and it does.

So i set password for that user, checked /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow (password is really there) and i then try again 'ssh user1@localhost', which, i presume, should be OK this time, but it returns the same error 'ssh: connect to host localhost port 22; Connection refused'

It's CentOS 6.

What's wrong?

It is all in Solution - restart sshd service - and that's it!

Sorry. I'll be smarter next time.

luisviveropena

Hi,

Yeah, it seems like the service was stopped. Next time please start a new thread.

Regards,

Luis.