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Nowadays the GUI interface on any desktop Linux distribution is so advanced that the average user can fulfill any task without any difficulty; still, the old command line allows us to speed up any of such activity because it allows us to give direct commands instead of navigating through thousand windows and options. For example, lets examine the following commands for adding and removing an user account from the command line. Add a user First open a terminal and give the following command to create a new user account (of course replace username with the name of the user account you want to create): sudo useradd username Now we create a home directory: sudo mkdir /home/username And set a password: sudo passwd username Finally, assign to the user the ownership of his home directory: sudo chown username /home/username sudo chgrp username /home/username If you want, then you can assign administrator privileges to the account you just created with the following command: sudo adduser username sudo Removing a user If the goal is to delete a user, the process is even easier: sudo userdel username sudo rm -r /home/username/

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Add and remove Linux users using the terminal

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