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I'm trying to create new user with default values, but it gives me error that such option is invalid. So does something changed and I need to use something else to create user with default values?
sudo useradd -n user
useradd: invalid option -- 'n'
I'm using ubuntu 14.04.
Andrius
Posted 2014-09-08T12:58:13.880
Reputation: 477
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You get the error because -n does not exist as an option (according to my useradd manpage).
It is not clear what you mean by default falues but the most straighforward way to create a user and place him into the users group would be
useradd -g users <username>
The user needs to be part of at least one group... which in this case is users (initial group).
With options like -m you can create a home-directory for that user along the way.
ap0
Posted 2014-09-08T12:58:13.880
Reputation: 1 180
I solved this with
addusercommand, that helped craeting user interactively. Usinguseraddalways created user with some strange options. Like you couldn't even usecdand I guess shell default profile was not used so it looked strange. But withadduserit creates user with all default options my first linux user gets (except access rights of course) – Andrius – 2014-09-08T13:20:42.090