[X-Unix] Creating users with the command line

[Eric Crist]

On Oct 12, 2004, at 2:14 AM, 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.
>
> There is no "normal" (i.e. "standard") Unix commands for 
> adding/removing
> users.  *BSD use "adduser".  Linux distros use useradd.  Pick your 
> poison.
>
>
> -- 
> Eugene Lee
> http://www.coxar.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/

Actually, IIRC, both adduser and useradd are simply shell scripts to 
the pw command.  The pw command (not distributed with Mac OS X) handles 
all of the fields in a standard password file, and can deal with shadow 
files as well.

My $.02
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Eric F Crist
Secure Computing Networks