Hi,

I wanted to create a new user on my Linux machine. So first I created a new group called projuser using the command

groupadd -f projuser i.e groupadd -f <groupname>

Then I created a new user using the command.

useradd -d /home/anand -g projuser -p pwd anand i.e

useradd -d <home_directory> -g <initial_group> -p <password> <user_name>

But when I am trying to login I get an error with username : anand and password : pwd , i get an error saying Access Denied. I think it is a problem with the group that I have given. Do I need to anything additionally after creating the group.

Any help is welcome.

Regards,
Anand

If this user is going to have a shell et al, you probably want to give their initial group as users, and then additional groups (-G) as whatever else, such is the case as projuser.

Cool

Thanks for the inputs. But tell me something what if I want the new user to have a group created by me itself, in this case projuser. So do I need to need to give additionaly permissions to the group. Or anything else. Kindly let me know.

Thnks
Anand

If you want a new user, or set of users to belong to a group, you assign that with the -G option. This is assuming they will have accounts on the box and access to the box. If they are virtual users (samba users, website logins, virtual email) then they don't need to have actual accounts and don't necessarily need to belong to the users group (-g users).

To give your users permission to a specific folder, and only certain users, that's the case where a special group (projuser) would come into play. Not every user on your system necessarily needs access to that folder, so you give specific users access by adding those users to a group you've created (projuser) and own that folder to that group.

HTH

Cool