useradd - shell missing features after adding user

Linux and Unix-Like Ubuntu
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Hi, I need to create a user from a bash script so i have to use useradd. The problem is that when i create a user with:

useradd -d /home/sample -m sample

after i login with that user I have no history in bash, path do not appears, i can't use arrows and so on. When I use adduser everything is fine but what I'm missing here ? What parameters do i have to use with useradd so when I login with that user bash has full features.

Thank you.

2

try usermod -s /bin/bash <username> if the shell is not bash, for some reason. Alternately check to make sure the contents of /etc/skel were copied to the user's home.

3

useradd does not give the user any more parameters than those you create, so the way you're using it, it won't asign bash as the default shell.

I'd use this:
useradd -d /home/user -s /bin/bash -G group -m user

Remove the -g in case you don't want him to be in a specific group.
I'd try adding a -p password with a password that might be maybe the same user name

Good luck

4

if you use the -G group that will be a secondary group. If you want them to be in default groups, then you can leave that off. Otherwise, use -G for groups you don't want to include their primary GID. -g is used for their primary GID/group.

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useradd -d /home/user -m -s /bin/bash -c "Name&Surname" user

this will create new user

then
passwd user --> enter new password

then transfer owneship to new user

chown -R user /home/user

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ownership should not need transferring when made with useradd especially if the -m switch is used.