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User & Group management Graphically in Red Hat


How to add/remove User accounts in Linux from Graphical Interface



Lets get straight to the task. Just follow the following steps to learn about adding or removing user accounts in Linux using a GUI. Here I will use GNOME desktop environment but similar steps can be taken in other Desktop Environments to do the same.

Go to Users and groups application to manage users
Click the add user button to ?
 In order to create a new user, click add user
Fill the Info and click ok
 Fill in the user info and click ok.
As you can see the new user is created
 As you can see the new user is created
click delete to delete the user
 In order to delete a user click delete.
In order to manage more user options go to properties
 If you want more user management options select properties
Here we add the user to a group
Here we add the user to a group "linuxers"
the new user is added to the group
 The user is added.

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