Linux adduser/addgroup Command Tutorial for Beginners (7 Examples)

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Himanshu Arora
Feb 19, 2018

As a Linux system administrator, one of the basic tasks that you’ll have to perform is to create accounts for new users and manage user groups. Of course, there are command line utilities that let you do this, and this tutorial, we will discuss the basics of two such commands: adduser and addgroup.

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Himanshu Arora

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