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| 33.\" $FreeBSD: head/share/man/man8/adding_user.8 64618 2000-08-13 18:38:58Z gshapiro $ | 33.\" $FreeBSD: head/share/man/man8/adding_user.8 70466 2000-12-29 09:18:45Z ru $ |
| 34.\" 35.Dd June 5, 1993 36.Dt ADDING_USER 8 37.Os BSD 4 38.Sh NAME 39.Nm adding_user 40.Nd procedure for adding new users 41.Sh DESCRIPTION 42A new user must choose a login name, which must not already appear in 43.Pa /etc/passwd 44or 45.Pa /etc/mail/aliases . 46It must also not begin with the hyphen 47.Ql Fl 48character. 49It is strongly recommended that it be all lower-case, and not contain 50the dot | 34.\" 35.Dd June 5, 1993 36.Dt ADDING_USER 8 37.Os BSD 4 38.Sh NAME 39.Nm adding_user 40.Nd procedure for adding new users 41.Sh DESCRIPTION 42A new user must choose a login name, which must not already appear in 43.Pa /etc/passwd 44or 45.Pa /etc/mail/aliases . 46It must also not begin with the hyphen 47.Ql Fl 48character. 49It is strongly recommended that it be all lower-case, and not contain 50the dot |
| 51.Ql \&. | 51.Ql .\& |
| 52character, as that tends to confuse mailers. 53An account can be added by editing a line into the passwd file; this 54must be done with the password file locked e.g. by using 55.Xr chpass 1 56or 57.Xr vipw 8 . 58.Pp 59A new user is given a group and user id. 60Login and user id's should be unique across the system, and often across 61a group of systems, since they are used to control file access. 62Typically, users working on similar projects will be put in the same groups. 63At the University of California, Berkeley, we have groups for system staff, 64faculty, graduate students, and special groups for large projects. 65.Pp 66A skeletal account for a new user | 52character, as that tends to confuse mailers. 53An account can be added by editing a line into the passwd file; this 54must be done with the password file locked e.g. by using 55.Xr chpass 1 56or 57.Xr vipw 8 . 58.Pp 59A new user is given a group and user id. 60Login and user id's should be unique across the system, and often across 61a group of systems, since they are used to control file access. 62Typically, users working on similar projects will be put in the same groups. 63At the University of California, Berkeley, we have groups for system staff, 64faculty, graduate students, and special groups for large projects. 65.Pp 66A skeletal account for a new user |
| 67\*(lqernie\*(rq | 67.Dq ernie |
| 68might look like: 69.Bd -literal 70ernie::25:30::0:0:Ernie Kovacs,508 Evans Hall,x7925, 71 642-8202:/a/users/ernie:/bin/csh 72.Ed 73.Pp 74For a description of each of these fields, see 75.Xr passwd 5 . --- 42 unchanged lines hidden --- | 68might look like: 69.Bd -literal 70ernie::25:30::0:0:Ernie Kovacs,508 Evans Hall,x7925, 71 642-8202:/a/users/ernie:/bin/csh 72.Ed 73.Pp 74For a description of each of these fields, see 75.Xr passwd 5 . --- 42 unchanged lines hidden --- |