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When working with any Unix machine, it is recommended to run commands as a sub-user, and only to use root when necessary. This means that a basic knowledge of how to create new users and give them proper permissions is required. Here is a step-by-step guide on how to create new users on Linux, how to add a password to those users.
CREATING NEW USERS ON LINUX
The first step is to create a new user if you haven’t already done so.
To create a new user run
adduser username
This will begin a series of prompts including password and profile information for the new user.
It is not safe to be operating your VM as root, so in order to make changes from a created user, you need to grant root or sudo privileges to created users.
GRANTING ROOT OR SUDO PRIVILEGES TO USERS
To grant root privileges for a user on Ubuntu or Debian run
usermod -a -G sudo username
To grant root privileges for a user on CentOS or RedHat run
usermod -a -G wheel username
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