[X-Unix] Creating users with the command line

[Steffen Lund Hokland]

Hi,

I have no idea about Apache whatsoever, but FINK has a package called  
userutils, with the 'normal' UNIX commands for adding and removing  
users.

Best regards,
Steffen

On 11/10-2004, at 21.32, Pedro fp wrote:

> G'day Folks
>
> I'm trying to (re)configure the Apache server in my Mac OS X.3  
> following the instructions given in "Apache the Definitive Guide"  
> (O'Reilly). I'm doing this both as a learning exercise and because I  
> need a more sophisticated testing server than I currently have, in  
> particular I need multiple virtual servers with SSL.
>
> Early on ATDG advises creating a user called 'webuser' in a group  
> 'webgroup'. The authors advise first creating webgroup using the  
> command ...
> 	adduser -group webgroup
> then using addgroup to add webuser however when I attempt to run those  
> commands I get ...
> 	-bash: adduser: command not found
> Can anyone advise how I can do this on OS X.3? The objective is to  
> create a user who "cannot actually log in" for Apache services to run  
> as.
> 	
>
> Cheers, Pedro :-)
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