Creating Users

Access control is a concept that will be mentioned further on within the courses on NGS Academy and it's all about providing access to people who have been vetted or authenticated one way or another. A great way to exercise this, is through the use of creating users.

Useradd

It is as simple as using the command "useradd" along with the username to create the user within the Unix/Linux system. For example:

· Useradd dave

Once the user has been created we now need to provide the user with a password. To do this, the command "passwd" can be used along with the username:

· Passwd dave

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