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Setting your own password

passwd

Setting another user's password

Run the following as root: passwd username

Adding a user

Run the following as root: useradd username

Removing a user

Run the following as root: userdel username

Removing a user and its home folder

Run the following as root: userdel -r username

Listing groups the current user is in

groups More detailed information about user and group numerical IDs can be found with the id command.

Listing groups a user is in

groups username More detailed information about user and group numerical IDs can be found with id username.

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