I know this will sound stupid, but we've been tasked with standing up a professional Linux server to run a vendor tool and product on. And my team has never administered a Linux or Unix box before. I know the concepts, but can't find the tools!

How do I create a user-ID? And is there a GUI tool I can fire up from the command line to make some of this easier? We can get to the box, manipulate files, etc. But to this point we're exclusively usint 'root', and I know I need to stop that, and prevent that happening in the future.

which distribution?
You can use
adduser or useradd

As asked, distro name & version are critical for that qn.

Here are some useful links in general:
http://rute.2038bug.com/index.html.gz

http://tldp.org/LDP/Bash-Beginners-G...tml/index.html
in fact any/all of

http://www.tldp.org/guides.html

and quite possibly

http://www.linuxtopia.org/index.html

HTH

Welcome to LQ

hi~~~~~~

On Fedora the GUI tool is
Menu System -> Administration -> Users and Groups
On the commandline you can do the same (and more) by using useradd and userdel directly. If running a samba server you need to know that samba users and passwords are set by other tools.

Linux

lilychan:

Please stop that advertisement. This is a help forum for Linux Newbies. You can post adz to the market places there are many in the web. Please do not disturb them, everybody is busy solving linux user problems.

I hope you understand.

Shyi-shyie ni.

Ubuntu is very similar to fedora, main menu: system --> administration --> users and groups|||| You will be required to input your password.