User IDs

[Don Dugger]

>On Mon, 7 Jan 2013 11:49:48 -0800, Don Dugger wrote:
>> The question is about dealing with adding users. I been using NIS for a
>> while now it works ok however I've had to keep good notes on how to do
>> thing mainly because I don't add user or boxes very often. I'm a software
>> engineer not a system admin so I not clean on what the best way to deal
>> with things like this. The problem is when I added a PC-BSD box and
added a
>> user with the GUI admin stuff provided it did not let me specify the user
>> id so now the users file that are on the nfs mounted drives user id's
don't>
>> match. I can login as root and use chpass and change the user ids but
then
>> I must go through add they files on the new box change uids and gids.
>>
>> Question is there an easier way??

>If the GUI tool of PC-BSD doesn't cover the specific need you
>have, use the CLI equivalent. If you need an interactive way
>of adding users, use "adduser", and if you have some time,
>read "man pw" and use "pw useradd" (and maybe "pw usermod")
>which will cover nearly all imaginable cases.

>The advantage of pw is that you can easily script and automate
>things. If urgently needed, you could create a GUI wrapper
>with Tcl/Tk, but you'll probably find that the CLI tool is
>much easier to use.

Ya I tried that the problem is adduser doesn't set the users home directory
up for the for PC-BSD system. (KDE)

Don