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TL;DR

adduser

User addition utility. More information: https://manned.org/adduser.

  • Create a new user with a default home directory and prompt the user to set a password:

adduser username

  • Create a new user without a home directory:

adduser --no-create-home username

  • Create a new user with a home directory at the specified path:

adduser --home path/to/home username

  • Create a new user with the specified shell set as the login shell:

adduser --shell path/to/shell username

  • Create a new user belonging to the specified group:

adduser --ingroup group username

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