Ubuntu user account creation, root privilege assignment tips
After you login as a user in Ubuntu machine, you can go to the root account by typing
user@myhost:~# sudo -s
It will ask for the password of the current user and once you finish typing in the password, you are in the root user account.
To create a new user “king” in Ubuntu
user@myhost:~#useradd king
To set password for the account in Ubuntu
user@myhost:~#passwd king
Another easy way to add user in Ubuntu is to give the command
user@myhost:~# adduser king
… and there will be series of instructions that will get executed enabling you to set the user account details.
To make the user “king” have admin privileges in Ubuntu
user@myhost:~# sudo adduser king admin
Another way to create user account is
user@myhost:~# sudo useradd -d /home/king -m king
To go to the root account, type the command
user@myhost:~# sudo su root
and the command prompt will change to
root@myhost:/home/user~#
To delete user account, type the command
user@myhost:~# sudo delete king
(user account should have root privileges)
When user account is created, a folder is created in the name of the user under /home/user/ and the files from /etc/skel directory get copied to the user home directory. You can modify the files in /etc/skel directory as these content would get copied when the user account is created.
