Which of the following commands adds a new user usera to FreeIPA?

Question

Options

• Auseradd usera --directory ipa --gecos "User A"
• Bidap- useradd -H Idaps://ipa-server CN=UserA --attribs "Firstname: User: Lastname: A"
• Cipa-admin create user --account usera --fname User --iname A
• Dipa user-add usera --first User --last A
• Eipa-user- add usera --name "User A"

• A
  2% (1)
• C
  5% (3)
• D
  89% (49)
• E
  4% (2)

Explanation

ipa user-add is the correct FreeIPA CLI command for creating users, and option D uses the proper flags: --first for the first name and --last for the last name, which are required fields in FreeIPA's schema.

Why the distractors fail:

• A uses useradd, which is the standard Linux local user command - it has no awareness of FreeIPA and those flags (--directory ipa, --gecos) don't create IPA-managed users.
• B uses idap-useradd (not a real command) and LDAP DN syntax - while FreeIPA is backed by LDAP, you don't interact with it using raw LDAP commands for user creation.
• C invents a fictional ipa-admin create user syntax - no such subcommand exists in the ipa CLI toolset.
• E uses ipa-user-add (hyphenated, wrong binary name) instead of the correct ipa user-add (space-separated subcommand), and --name is not a valid flag.

Memory tip: Think of FreeIPA's CLI as ipa <object>-<verb> - so for a user you want to add, it's ipa user-add. The required flags mirror a name form: --first and --last, just like filling out a first/last name field.

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