Unlike other flavors of UNIX, RHEL does not have a command like adduser which walks you through the process step-by-step, so you have to remember the four flags useradd requires, and in what order it expects to receive them. Since I don’t manually add users unless I’m installing a new server, I don’t run the command enough to remember the syntax… It’s basically the same as it is on Solaris.

useradd -g group -c 'User Name' -d /path/to/home/directory -s /bin/bash username

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