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Dell PowerFlex Appliance with PowerFlex 4.x Administration Guide

Create users

About this task

useradd allows you to add users and specify certain criteria such as: comments, the users home directory, shell type, and many others account properties for SUSE Linux operating system.

Steps

  1. SSH to the jump server using the admin user, and type: Server1:~# useradd -mU -G trusted <newuser>.

    The following table that explains what each qualifier is used for:

    Table 1. Qualifier and descriptionsQualifiers and their descriptions.
    Qualifier Description
    -m This qualifier makes the useradd command create the users home directory.
    -G This qualifier makes the useradd command to add the user to the group directory
  2. Set the associated password, type: server1:~ # passwd <newuser>.
    Once the password is set, the user can successfully log in to the server.

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