Phat Site Blog » users http://blog.phatsite.com Web Stuff is Easy Sun, 29 Jan 2012 20:00:15 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Creating a New User in CentOS 5 http://blog.phatsite.com/server-maintenance/creating-a-new-user-in-centos-5/ http://blog.phatsite.com/server-maintenance/creating-a-new-user-in-centos-5/#comments Sun, 25 Jan 2009 23:12:21 +0000 admin http://blog.phatsite.com/?p=5 Creating a New User in CentOS 5

1. SSH to your server as root
2. Create a user:  /usr/sbin/useradd newuser
3. Expire ther user immediately: /usr/bin/chage -d 0 newuser
4. Set blank password: /usr/sbin/usermod -p “” newuser
5. If you want to set the user’s password:
* su newuser
* passwd
Changing password for user newuser
New UNIX password: <enter your password>
Retype new UNIX password: <enter your password>
passwd: all authentication tokens updated successfully.

That’s it!  From there on, you have a user that can be used to host your website or blog!

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