Using A Linux Command to Create a Linux User VS. Using A GUI Utility

Here is an example of running the Linux adduser command to quickly and easily create a new Linux user named bthatcher (for Becky Thatcher):

# adduser -c "Becky Thatcher" bthatcher

Creating A Linux User With A GUI Utility - The Slow and Cumbersome Way

Here are the steps that are required (from a Linux desktop - if there is one on the system) to use a Linux GUI utility to do the equivalent of the Linux command shown above, to create

the bthatcher user:

• Select the main menu name (for the GUI utility) and then select the name of the GUI utility to run it

• Wait for the GUI utility to start up - and on some systems, this can be a very tedious wait

• In the GUI utility to create a user, click on User (menu name) and then click on Create

• Click on the field (blank space in the GUI) for First Name and type in: Becky

• Click on the field for Last Name and type in: Thatcher

• Click on the field for Username and type in: bthatcher

• Click OK to create the user.

The above steps provide a general description of using a GUI utility, but these steps will be different from one Linux distribution to another - and the name of the GUI utility will be different from one distro to another.

So, you can easily see that it's much faster and easier to run a Linux command than to use a Linux GUI utility to do the equivalent of running a command. But you have to know the name of the command to run, and what to type in to run it!

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