Ch. 33. Creating accounts with useradd.
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.
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So maybe it is a typo? Does useradd on non-debian systems behave differently?
Comments
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I believe your machine is right as usually there are distros differences.
However, I can confirm that useradd does work in Centos 70 -
Hi vam,
What is the command you are using, please? So I can try it on my side.
Thanks,
Luis.0 -
I used both Ubuntu 14.04 and 15.04.
In factuseradd 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.0 -
Well, you were able to solve it, that's good As it has been said, there are some few differences between distros.
Regards,
Luis.0 -
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.
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Hi,
Yeah, it seems like the service was stopped. Next time please start a new thread.
Regards,
Luis.
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