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28 .\" @(#)adduser.8 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/5/93
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37 .Nd procedure for adding new users
39 A new user must choose a login name, which must not already appear in
42 .Pa /etc/mail/aliases .
43 It must also not begin with the hyphen
46 It is strongly recommended that it be all lower-case, and not contain
49 character, as that tends to confuse mailers.
50 An account can be added by editing a line into the passwd file; this
51 must be done with the password file locked e.g. by using
56 A new user is given a group and user id.
57 Login and user id's should be unique across the system, and often across
58 a group of systems, since they are used to control file access.
59 Typically, users working on similar projects will be put in the same groups.
60 At the University of California, Berkeley, we have groups for system staff,
61 faculty, graduate students, and special groups for large projects.
63 A skeletal account for a new user
67 ernie::25:30::0:0:Ernie Kovacs,508 Evans Hall,x7925,
68 642-8202:/a/users/ernie:/bin/csh
71 For a description of each of these fields, see
74 It is useful to give new users some help in getting started, supplying
75 them with a few skeletal files such as
87 contains skeletal definitions of such files.
88 New users should be given copies of these files which, for instance,
91 automatically at each login.
93 .Bl -tag -width /etc/master.passwdxx -compact
94 .It Pa /etc/master.passwd
96 .It Pa /usr/share/skel
97 skeletal login directory
111 procedure appeared in
114 User information should (and eventually will) be stored elsewhere.