adduser

adduser USERNAME sudo
The user `USERNAME` is already a member of `sudo`.

Amazon Linux

 adduser USERNAME -G sudo
 adduser: group 'sudo' does not exist
 adduser USERNAME -G admin
 adduser: group 'admin' does not exist

adduser (BusyBox)

• https://www.busybox.net/downloads/BusyBox.html
• https://linux.die.net/man/8/adduser

adduser YOUR_NEW_USER

adduser
BusyBox v1.28.4 (2020-10-07 19:11:37 +04) multi-call binary.

Usage: adduser [OPTIONS] USER [GROUP]

Create new user, or add USER to GROUP

	-h DIR		Home directory
	-g GECOS	GECOS field
	-s SHELL	Login shell
	-G GRP		Group
	-S		Create a system user
	-D		Don't assign a password
	-H		Don't create home directory
	-u UID		User id
	-k SKEL		Skeleton directory (/etc/skel)

Related commands

• passwd
• groups
• usermod

See also

• useradd, adduser (BusyBox), usermod, groupmod, userdel, groupadd, dscl, /Users/, groups, id