[X-Unix] Creating users with the command line

Stroller MacMonster at myrealbox.com
Tue Oct 12 04:23:22 PDT 2004


On Oct 12, 2004, at 8:38 am, Steffen Lund Hokland wrote:

>> There is no "normal" (i.e. "standard") Unix commands for 
>> adding/removing
>> users.  *BSD use "adduser".  Linux distros use useradd.  Pick your 
>> poison.
> Yes - well I kind of ment 'normal' in the sense that there *existed* 
> command-line tools for user administration in contrary to Darwin, 
> where the don't.

I thought `niutil` did this, but I've never used it.
A Google suggests that `niutil` isn't as convienient as Lunix's 
`superadduser` command, but throws up a shell script which manipulates 
it to be nearly so. 
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Stroller.



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