Users and groups Adding an existing user to an existing group usermod -a -G theExampleGroup theExampleUser Changing the primary group of an existing user usermod -g theExampleGroup theExampleUser See wich groups the user belongs to groups theExampleUser Add an existing user to the sudo group usermod -aG sudo username   Add a new user with name, shell and home directory sudo useradd -m -c "Samwise the Brave" sam -s /bin/bash   https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/howto-linux-add-user-to-group/ https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-create-a-sudo-user-on-ubuntu-quickstart https://askubuntu.com/questions/643411/ubuntu-14-04-new-user-created-from-command-line-has-missing-features