[X-Unix] Creating users with the command line

[Bruce Cheng]

I tried the script and it worked  nicely. (thanks)

Two minor problems:

I changed:

mkdir $home

to

mkdir -p $home


Parent Home directory did not exist.


Also

cp /System/Library/User Template/English.lproj/* $home


Change to
cp /System/Library/User\ Template/English.lproj/* $home


to escape a space.

-Bruce


On Oct 12, 2004, at 4:23 AM, Stroller wrote:

>
> On Oct 12, 2004, at 8:38 am, Steffen Lund Hokland wrote:
>
>>> There is no "normal" (i.e. "standard") Unix commands for=20
>>> adding/removing
>>> users.  *BSD use "adduser".  Linux distros use useradd.  Pick your=20=

>>> poison.
>> Yes - well I kind of ment 'normal' in the sense that there *existed*=20=

>> command-line tools for user administration in contrary to Darwin,=20
>> 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=20
> `superadduser` command, but throws up a shell script which manipulates=20=

> it to be nearly so.=20
> <http://www2.dougeverly.com:8080/article.php?story=3D20031028193713159>
>
> Stroller.
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