Jack Wallen walks you through creating new users and groups on Linux and adding those new users to the new groups.

We use ‘mkdir’ (make directory) command to create new directories. If you simply run the mkdir command followed by the name of the new directory, the folder will be created in the current ...

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You create new users on your Linux servers and let those admins do their thing. Problem is, when you create a new user, that user doesn’t have admin privileges.

Here's a quick guide to adding users and groups, and then how to add users to groups, all from the command line on the Linux platform.