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Guided Exercise: Creating Users Using Command-line Tools

In this lab, you will create a number of users on your serverX system, setting and recording an initial password for each user.

Outcomes

A system with additional user accounts.

Reset your serverX system.

  1. Log into the GNOME desktop on serverX as student with a password of student.

  2. Open a window with a Bash prompt.

    Select Applications → Utilities → Terminal.

  3. Become the root user at the shell prompt.

    [student@serverX ~]$ su -
Password: redhat

  4. Add the user juliet. 

    [root@serverX ~]# useradd juliet

  5. Confirm that juliet has been added by examining the /etc/passwd file. 

    [root@serverX ~]# tail -2 /etc/passwd
tcpdump:x:72:72::/:/sbin/nologin
juliet:x:1001:1001::/home/juliet:/bin/bash

  6. Use the passwd command to initialize juliet's password. 

    [root@serverX ~]# passwd juliet
Changing password for user juliet.
New password: juliet
BAD PASSWORD: The password is shorter than 8 characters
Retype new password: juliet
passwd: all authentication tokens updated successfully.

  7. Continue adding the remaining users in the steps below and set initial passwords.

    1. romeo

      [root@serverX ~]# useradd romeo
[root@serverX ~]# passwd romeo
Changing password for user romeo.
New password: romeo
BAD PASSWORD: The password is shorter than 8 characters
Retype new password: romeo
passwd: all authentication tokens updated successfully.

    2. hamlet

      [root@serverX ~]# useradd hamlet
[root@serverX ~]# passwd hamlet

    3. reba

      [root@serverX ~]# useradd reba
[root@serverX ~]# passwd reba

    4. dolly

      [root@serverX ~]# useradd dolly
[root@serverX ~]# passwd dolly

    5. elvis

      [root@serverX ~]# useradd elvis
[root@serverX ~]# passwd elvis
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