[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.
<http://www2.dougeverly.com:8080/article.php?story=20031028193713159>
Stroller.
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