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Debian: Account for an additional user

Debian: Account for an additional user

Published 01 August 2026

If you do not wish to use your primary user account for the following training activities, you can create a training account—for example, "fish"—by running the following command:

# adduser fish Answer all the questions.

This creates a new account named "fish". After completing your exercises, you can delete this user account and its home directory using:

# deluser --remove-home fish On non-Debian systems and specialized Debian systems, the activities above require the use of the low-level useradd(8) and userdel(8) utilities instead.