Is there a command to list all users? Also to add, delete, modify users, in the terminal?
To list
To list all local users you can use:
cut -d: -f1 /etc/passwd
To list all users capable of authenticating (in some way), including non-local, see this reply.
Some more useful user-management commands (also limited to local users):
To add
To add a new user you can use:
sudo adduser new_username
or:
sudo useradd new_username
See also: What is the difference between adduser and useradd?
To remove/delete
To remove/delete a user, first you can use:
sudo userdel username
Then you may want to delete the home directory for the deleted user account :
sudo rm -r /home/username
Please use with caution the above command!
To modify
To modify the username of a user:
usermod -l new_username old_username
To change the password for a user:
sudo passwd username
To change the shell for a user:
sudo chsh username
To change the details for a user (for example real name):
sudo chfn username
To add a user to the sudo
group:
adduser username sudo
or
usermod -aG sudo username
And, of course, see also: man adduser
, man useradd
, man userdel
... and so on.
Just press Ctrl+Alt+T on your keyboard to open Terminal. When it opens, run the command(s) below:
cat /etc/passwd
OR
less /etc/passwd
more /etc/passwd
You can also use awk:awk
awk -F':' '{ print $1}' /etc/passwd