newuser

[Bill Moran]

Matthew Seaman <m.seaman at infracaninophile.co.uk> wrote:

> On Thu, Jun 24, 2004 at 11:58:41PM -0400, James Bell wrote:
> >  
> > I have BSD UNIX.
> >  
> > What commands should I use from the root to create a new user.
> 
> Essentially:
> 
>     # pw useradd -n name -m
>     # passwd name
> 
> I suggest that you immediately read the pw(8) man page and the
> appropriate section of the Handbook:
> 
>     http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/users.html

Um ... no offense, Matt, but isn't that a bit overly difficult for a new
user?

Try adduser ... the manpage is pretty informative.

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Bill Moran
Potential Technologies
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