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🐧 LinuxBeginner⏱ 10 min6 steps

Manage users and groups

Create, modify and delete accounts.

  1. Create a user:
    sudo adduser alice
  2. Give them administrator rights (Debian/Ubuntu):
    sudo usermod -aG sudo alice
  3. On Fedora the group is called "wheel".
  4. See a user's groups:
    id alice
  5. Change a password:
    sudo passwd alice
  6. Delete a user and their home folder:
    sudo deluser --remove-home alice