I figured I’d post about a few web content filtering solutions I’ve come across over the years. Good for setting up kid computers or an entire network for content filtering. There are products a church might recommend like CovenantEyes accountability software but why pay for something that is out there for free?
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Ubuntu Server is like any Linux variety, and has full multi-user capabilities, and a common task on any server is adding users.
useradd
The useradd command will let you add a new user easily from the command line:
useradd
This command adds the user, but without any extra options your user won’t have a password or a home directory.
You can use the -d option to set the home directory for the user. The -m option will force useradd to create the home directory. We’ll try creating a user account with those options, and then use the passwd command to set the password for the account. You can alternatively set a password using -p on the useradd command, but I prefer to set the password using passwd.
sudo useradd -d /home/testuser -m testuser
sudo passwd testuser
adduser
The adduser command is even easier than the useradd command, because it prompts you for each piece of information. I find it slightly funny that there are two virtually identically named commands that do the same thing, but that’s linux for you. Here’s the syntax:
adduser