View user account information

While creating user in a VPS, check whether the user is already created in VPS using



root@host [~]# vi /etc/passwd


or

root@host [/]# cd /home/

root@host [/home]# ls




/etc/passwd is a text file, that contains a list of the system's accounts, giving for each account 

some useful information like user ID, group ID, home directory, shell, etc. 

It should have general read permission as many utilities, like ls use it to map user IDs to user names, 

but write access only for the superuser (root).



When you use the mkuser command to add a user to your system, the command updates the /etc/passwd file.



An entry in the /etc/passwd file has the following form:



Name:Password: UserID:PrincipleGroup:Gecos: HomeDirectory:Shell