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15.6 A Brand New You 203

Figure 15.13: Adding a user at the shell prompt

Remember that the password must be easy to recall and a unique mixture of letters, symbols and/or

numbers.

That’sit.

From now on, whenever you want to add a user, change account information or change account

passwords – including the root password – either useradd or linuxconf will ﬁt the bill. Make

sure you’re logged in as the root user, however.

Tip: If you ﬁnd yourself switching around frequently between the root account and

your user account, it can become confusing to know which account you’re actually

logged into. You can always tell you’re in the root account you see the word [root

at the start of the shell prompt or the hash mark (#) at the end. If you see (for example)

[billy, or the dollar sign ($), you’reworkinginyouruseraccount.

Regardless of the method you choose – from the shell prompt or from Linuxconf – your new user

account’s “login directory” will be placed in a subdirectory of /home.

To ﬁnish up and try out your new account, log out from your root account.

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