BSD Users

A user can refer to either a local user that a real person uses interactively or a system user that is used to set permissions on system processes.

Contents

BSD Users
1. Creating Users
  1. Privileged Users
  2. Custom Groups

Creating Users

See adduser(8). It can be used interactively.

Privileged Users

Standard practice is that privileged users are in the wheel group. Only these users can su(1) to set their UID to root.

Therefore, to escalate a user's privileges, try

adduser USERNAME wheel

Custom Groups

To create a custom group, see addgroup(8).

addgroup GROUPNAME
adduser USERNAME GROUPNAME

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