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| 33.\" $FreeBSD: head/share/man/man8/adding_user.8 99969 2002-07-14 14:58:11Z charnier $ | 33.\" $FreeBSD: head/share/man/man8/adding_user.8 108221 2002-12-23 16:04:51Z ru $ |
| 34.\" 35.Dd June 5, 1993 36.Dt ADDING_USER 8 37.Os 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 | 34.\" 35.Dd June 5, 1993 36.Dt ADDING_USER 8 37.Os 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 | 47.Sq Fl |
| 48character. 49It is strongly recommended that it be all lower-case, and not contain 50the dot 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 --- 62 unchanged lines hidden --- | 48character. 49It is strongly recommended that it be all lower-case, and not contain 50the dot 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 --- 62 unchanged lines hidden --- |