useradd on CentOS with home directory and sudo privileges

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There are so many variants to adduser or useradd -- which is correct?

On CentOS release 5.11 (Final) I'm using adduser --create-home baz but somewhat prefer the way Ubuntu asks extraneous questions about contact information. On Ubuntu, just adduser desired_user_name sudo which is easier to remember -- at least for me.

Digital Ocean says to use adduser and usermod:

Use the usermod command to add the user to the wheel group.
usermod -aG wheel username
By default, on CentOS, members of the wheel group have sudo privileges.

Just handled differently?

(This is on Elastix 2.5 (asterisk) running on CentOS.)

As an aside, useradd is the POSIX way of adding users – fpmurphy Dec 27 '16 at 10:59 — fpmurphy, Dec 27 '16 at 10:59

score 2 · Accepted Answer · edited Jun 11 '20 at 14:16

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You can use -G

For CentOS Doc

-G<group-list>    

       List of additional (other than default) group names or group 
       numbers, separated by commas, of which the user is a member. The
       groups must exist prior to being specified here.

so you can do this with

useradd username -d <customer_home_dir_path> -G <group_names>

edited Jun 11 '20 at 14:16

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answered Dec 27 '16 at 10:56

Raja G

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useradd on CentOS with home directory and sudo privileges

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