Removing users

To remove a user, you can issue the following, as we are no longer setting up a gopher server on the pi, I will just remove the user.

sudo deluser gopher

Which will remove the user, but not that users /home directory, which for the most part is fine if you want to keep hold of the user account data.

For more information and options, consult the man page

man deluser

Chat

I am on the Devon and Cornwall Linux user group mailing list and also their matrix channel as zleap, it is better to ask there, that way others can answer too.

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Bash scripting 23 – users

To add new users to a system, we can use the command. You will need to have root privileges for this, so you need to prefix with sudo, e.g.

**Permissions, the initial user you create when setting up the pi, has sudo or admin privileges. Additional users will not. Unless you take steps to give that user those permissions.**

sudo useradd <user>

The rest of the process is interactive, in this example I am adding the user gopher to the raspberry Pi4 system we are also using for testing cron.

sudo adduser gopher
Adding user `gopher' ...
Adding new group `gopher' (1001) ...
Adding new user `gopher' (1001) with group `gopher (1001)' ...
Creating home directory `/home/gopher' ...
Copying files from `/etc/skel' ...
New password: 
Retype new password: 
passwd: password updated successfully
Changing the user information for gopher
Enter the new value, or press ENTER for the default
	Full Name []: Gopher
	Room Number []: 0
	Work Phone []: 0
	Home Phone []: 0
	Other []: 0
Is the information correct? [Y/n] y
Adding new user `gopher' to supplemental / extra groups `users' ...
Adding user `gopher' to group `users' ...

I can now login to the user gopher on the Raspberry Pi with

$ ssh gopher@192.168.1.202
gopher@192.168.1.202's password: 
Linux raspberrypi 6.12.20+rpt-rpi-v8 #1 SMP PREEMPT Debian 1:6.12.20-1+rpt1~bpo12+1 (2025-03-19) aarch64

The programs included with the Debian GNU/Linux system are free software;
the exact distribution terms for each program are described in the
individual files in /usr/share/doc/*/copyright.

Debian GNU/Linux comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY, to the extent
permitted by applicable law.
gopher@raspberrypi:~ $ 

To change the password on a GNU/Linux system, use

passwd

To delete a user, use the userdel command, I am not going into this here, so as with other commands, there is a man page

man userdel
userdel - delete a user account and related files

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Mastodon User count – 29th July 2023

The latest Mastodon user stats

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If you still have no idea what the Fediverse is, you need to update you IT skills. Please see Fediverse.Party for info.

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Fediverse Trunk

Just reposting this as since Elon Musk bought Twitter, there has been a big migration over to Mastodon.

Joining a new network can be daunting, especially if you don't know anyone. This is especially true with decentralised networks, such as the Fediverse.

However with the Fediverse help is at hand, in the form of Trunk. The website helps you find other users by interest, gives you their id so you can search and follow them.

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