[X-Unix] Creating users with the command line

[Alexandre Gauthier]

Eugene wrote:

>On Tue, Oct 12, 2004 at 08:50:23AM +0200, Steffen Lund Hokland wrote:
>: 
>: I have no idea about Apache whatsoever, but FINK has a package called  
>: userutils, with the 'normal' UNIX commands for adding and removing  
>: users.
>  
>
Well, unless I am mistaken, I think adduser/useradd (whatever is used on 
OS X in the fink package) will create *unix* users, as in, in the 
password file.
You should use the niutil, I believe. Unless the useradd proposed there 
is just some kind of wrapper over niutil...

>There is no "normal" (i.e. "standard") Unix commands for adding/removing
>
>users.  *BSD use "adduser".  Linux distros use useradd.  Pick your poison.
>

On my OpenBSD box, useradd is well there... and it is larger than 
adduser, for some reason. On most linux distros, adduser is there as 
well, but it is a script that passes distribution defaults to useradd.

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