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!1) Sometimes you want to add a user that does not have it's own home directory. For example : I may want an xbox account that will only ever be used for accessing samba shares. There is a nice switch when using the 'adduser' command to avoid creating a home directory. *--no-create-home So in my xbox example I would do: *sudo adduser --no-create-home xbox If instead you use the 'useradd' command simply leave out the '-d' switch. !2) What if when we add a user we want to say what groups it belongs to? We use the -G switch and after this we can list (separated by commas) the groups to which we want the user to belong. *sudo useradd -G leech,blackthings,hugethings xbox !BUGGER but I have already added the user. Not to worry. Use the 'usermod' command instead. For example: *sudo usermod -G leech,blackthings,hugethings xbox Note: If the user you modify is part of a few groups and you forget to list one or more of them then the user will be removed from those groups. To avoid this happening use the -a switch so we append, and not overwrite. --- CategoryNotes
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