Managing user accounts Next: What's an account? Up: Linux System Administrators' Guide Previous: Shell startupManaging user accounts The similarities of sysadmins and drug dealers:both measure stuff in K's, and both have users.(Old, tired computer joke.)This chapter explains how to create new user accounts, how to modify the properties of those accounts, and how to remove the accounts. Different Linux systems have different tools for doing this. What's an account?Creating a user/etc/passwd and other informative filesPicking numeric user and group idsInitial environment: /etc/skelCreating a user by handChanging user propertiesRemoving a userDisabling a user temporarilyLars WirzeniusSat Nov 15 02:32:11 EET 1997s