Create a new VM Click VirtualBox’s Add toolbar button, give the VM a name, and set Type to Linux, and Version to Other Linux, with the appropriate bit (32 or 64) parameter matching your distro.

Jack Wallen walks you through creating new users and groups on Linux and adding those new users to the new groups.

Ubuntu 8.10, the release of the popular Linux distribution due out Oct. 30 (and code-named Intrepid Ibex), will give every user an encrypted private directory by default, one that mounts with you ...

chmod 701 /data SEE: How to Add an SSH Fingerprint to Your known_hosts File in Linux (TechRepublic) Create the SFTP group and user Now we’re going to create a special group for SFTP users.

Here's a quick guide to adding users and groups, and then how to add users to groups, all from the command line on the Linux platform.