[Solved] Adding new user - switching users

[PsySc0rpi0n]

Hello.

I'm using Debian Buster with Plasma Desktop and sddm.
I'm trying to add a new user to my Debian Buster. This is to be an account to my daughter to start exploring and practicing to type with the laptop keyboard and start getting used with online searches, etc.

So I did the following command in terminal:

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sudo useradd -m -d /home/homefolder newuser

Then I switched to 'root' user and set a password to the newly created user using:

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passwd newuser

Then I went back to my normal user and tried to switch to the newly created user I used:

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su -s newuser

and enter my normal user password and I get the following error:

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su: failed to execute newuser: No such file or directory

and if I use the newuser password in the above command I get a different error:

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su: Authentication failure

If I issue:

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cat /etc/passwd

I get the following:

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newuser:x:1003:1004::/home/homefolder:/bin/sh

Why can't I switch to my daughter's newly created account?
Note: I already tried in a new terminal session. Also 'newuser' and 'homefolder' are just generic names I used. But I was consistent changing the names, so the generic names I used, are correctly replace in the correct places here in my post.

[Head_on_a_Stick]

Run adduser(8) instead, this isn't Arch.

You will have to delete that abortive initial attempt first though:

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# deluser

[PsySc0rpi0n]

I'm trying to use:

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sudo adduser --home /home/homefolder --shell bash newuser

and I get the following error:

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adduser: Please enter a username matching the regular expression configured
via the NAME_REGEX configuration variable.  Use the `--force-badname'
option to relax this check or reconfigure NAME_REGEX.

What am I missing now?

[Head_on_a_Stick]

Just run

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# adduser newuser

Nothing else.

[PsySc0rpi0n]

Just run

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# adduser newuser

Nothing else.

But I don't want the home dir the same as the user name and the default terminal application I want it to be bash. What is wrong with the command?

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[arzgi]

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ADDUSER(8)                  System Manager's Manual                 ADDUSER(8)

NAME
       adduser, addgroup - add a user or group to the system

SYNOPSIS
       adduser  [options]  [--home  DIR]  [--shell  SHELL]  [--no-create-home]
       [--uid ID] [--firstuid ID] [--lastuid ID] [--ingroup GROUP | --gid  ID]
       [--disabled-password]  [--disabled-login]  [--gecos  GECOS]  [--add_ex‐
       tra_groups] user

[PsySc0rpi0n]

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ADDUSER(8)                  System Manager's Manual                 ADDUSER(8)

NAME
       adduser, addgroup - add a user or group to the system

SYNOPSIS
       adduser  [options]  [--home  DIR]  [--shell  SHELL]  [--no-create-home]
       [--uid ID] [--firstuid ID] [--lastuid ID] [--ingroup GROUP | --gid  ID]
       [--disabled-password]  [--disabled-login]  [--gecos  GECOS]  [--add_ex‐
       tra_groups] user

Yes, I know. I read it before coming here.
So, what is wrong with the command?

I give it no options, give 2 arguments in the correct sequence, I guess, which are --home and --shell, then I give the user name. What is wrong here?

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[Head_on_a_Stick]

This works for me:

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# adduser --home /home/homefolder --shell /bin/bash newuser

No idea why you're having problems.

[PsySc0rpi0n]

This works for me:

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# adduser --home /home/homefolder --shell /bin/bash newuser

No idea why you're having problems.

Ok, I got it.
I didn't used real names here but the problem was that I was using lower and capital letters in username which I can't according to the default set in NAME_REGEX.

Solved.
Thanks