The software described in this documentation is either in Extended Support or Sustaining Support. See https://www.oracle.com/us/support/library/enterprise-linux-support-policies-069172.pdf for more information.
Oracle recommends that you upgrade the software described by this documentation as soon as possible.
To create a user account by using the useradd command:
Enter the following command to create a user account:
#
useradd
[options
]username
You can specify options to change the account's settings from the default ones.
By default, if you specify a user name argument but do not specify any options, useradd creates a locked user account using the next available UID and assigns a user private group (UPG) rather than the value defined for
GROUP
as the user's group.Assign a password to the account to unlock it:
#
passwd
username
The command prompts you to enter a password for the account.
If you want to change the password non-interactively (for example, from a script), use the chpasswd command instead:
echo "
username
:password
" | chpasswd
Alternatively, you can use the newusers command to create a number of user accounts at the same time.
For more information, see the chpasswd(8)
,
newusers(8)
, passwd(1)
, and
useradd(8)
manual pages.