I'm new to Linux, and everything that has to do with computer language in general. I just started to teach myself coding, literally 2 days ago. I do not know computer talk AT ALL, but I pick up on things quickly & love computers. I'm trying to familiarize myself with the command line before I get more in-depth into this coding stuff. Here's my question:

I can't add a new user:
login as su-
useradd NewUser
Command not found
adduser NewUser
command not found
cd /usr/sbin/useradd
no such file or directory (same with add user)


I have searched everywhere. I do not even have "man" pages for useradd. I've even used apropos and can't find anything to do with adding a user. Is this normal? Am I doing something wrong? If so, what is it? Any relevant information would be useful. Thanks in advance.

See about running all of the following commands:

If any of these show where something is at, it might just not be part of your PATH.
Otherwise, you could be missing the necessary files completely, which would need you to install the package that has
useradd inside of it.

I believe that package would be shadow-utils

Hey Gtnewbrry - what version (distro) of Linux are you using ? Most distros have some kind of wiki / docs to help with this stuff ... Sometimes even a quick google search on a command will bring you to a useful Unix / Linux resource.

... so let's start with what distro you're on and go from there ... ;-)

I have Googled until I can't Google anymore. I also can't find what distort I'm using, none of the commands I have found online help me with either one, it's nowhere in /etc either. I can find my kernel version, but now my distro.

It's on OSX, I do not know the version. I think that answers your question.

Well, OSX is BSD UNIX, not Linux. So, maybe start there: http://superuser.com/questions/20281...nd-on-mac-os-x

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Thank you. I've been looking for this information for 2 days.