How To Add A New User In Ubuntu Using The Command Line

Add new user using the following command

sudo adduser newusername

Enter password for this username and fill fields if you wish

Confirm the information is correct and enter "y"

You have user added with very basic privileges.

You now need to set a user up with sudo access previlegies

We need to edit  /etc/sudoers file as sudo

sudo visudo

Add new line under the following

root ALL=(ALL:ALL) ALL
newusername ALL=(ALL:ALL) ALL

Ctrl + x to save this file

Delete .tmp off the end of the file name so it reads /etc/passwd
Enter Y to confirm overwriting the file

Add username newusername to group sudo

usermod -a -G sudo newusername

To verify this run

cat /etc/group |grep newusername

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