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- Documented user addition using the `adduser` command with the `--gecos` option for pre-filling user details.
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### User Information
**Add users**
This variation of the adduser command uses the --gecos option to pre-fill the user's information (Full name, Room number, Work Phone, Home Phone, and Email) non-interactively, allowing you to automate user creation with predefined details.
```bash
adduser --gecos "Fabrice Quenneville,,,fabrice@fabq.ca" fabrice
```
This variation of the adduser command creates a system user named "aptly" with a Bash shell, no password login (--disabled-password), a specified home directory (/home/aptly), and adds the user to a new group, while using the --gecos option to set the full name as "Aptly repository".
```bash
adduser --system --shell /bin/bash --gecos 'Aptly repository' --group --disabled-password --home /home/aptly aptly
```
**List Users**
To list all users from the `/etc/passwd` file, use: