Creating an Account without X
If X isn’t working or you want to work from a terminal emulator, you can still add user accounts. To do so, follow these steps:
Open a GNOME Terminal window by clicking the GNOME Menu button and choosing System ToolsTerminal.
Log in as root by entering this command:
su -
Enter the root password when prompted.
Type useradd name at the command prompt, where name is the login name for the new login account.
Type passwd name at the command prompt and press Enter.
This step changes the password of the new account, which had a default password assigned to it by the useradd command in Step 1. What good is a password if you use the default one?
Type your password again.
Red Hat Linux asks you to retype your new password to ensure that the password you typed is the one you thought you typed. If you don’t retype the password exactly as you did the first time (which is easy to do because it doesn’t appear onscreen), you have to repeat the process.Red Hat Linux updates the password for the new login.