Hello Everyone today I’m gonna discuss about how to manage user in kali linux. User management is a one of the most important part of linux administrator. Local accounts or users in Linux like operating system is managed by useradd, usermod, userdel, chage and passwd commands.
- useradd – command is used to create new accounts in Linux.
- usermod – command used to modify the existing accounts in linux.
- userdel – command is used to delete local account in linux.
- passwd – command used assign password to local accounts or users.
Syntax of Useradd in Linux :
useradd <username>
Syntax of Userdel in Linux :
userdel <username>
:> By Forcefully delete user
userdel -f <username>
Syntax of see all user account exist in system :
sudo nano /etc/passwd
for more information about linux user management please watch below video for better understanding.
Syntax of sudoers file config :
sudo nano /etc/sudoers
then you can add user which you want to add for priviledge.
Syntax of change password in Linux :
passwd <username>