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- .ce
- .ul
- add-user [ name ]
- .sp
- .ul
- add-user
- allows you to create a new account. There are several stages to this
- process. If the optional
- .ul
- name
- is supplied, mcp will use this as the user's login name, otherwise mcp will
- create a login name from the user's real name using these steps:
- .nf
- .sp
- .in +2
- Trim real name of titles (e.g. Dr., Prof.)
- Trim real name of suffixes (e.g. Jr., III)
- Case-lower the entire real name.
- If last name is not taken as a login name and it's less
- than eight characters in length, use it.
- If real name has three initials, concatenate them.
- If this is unused as a login, use it.
- Truncate the last name to no more than 5 characters.
- Append a '_'.
- Append the first character of the first name.
- If the result of the last two operations is already used
- as a login, increment the last character by one
- until a unique login is found.
- .in -2
- .sp
- .fi
- Mcp will then announce the result of all this to you.
- .sp
- Mcp will ask you (mostly) obvious questions about this new
- account until it has enough information to create it.
- Default responses, if any, appear in brackets "[]".
- .sp
- When mcp prompts you with "Id: " it expects a string that
- would uniquely identify the owner of the account anywhere on
- the planet. Generally this would be a person's Social Security
- Number. The reason for requesting such identification
- information is that mcp will use it to notify you if you're
- about to create an account for a user that already has one.
- You can specify "exception" here if you don't have such
- information; this is useful for non-human accounts such as
- "ftp", and "uucp".
- .sp
- There is also more than one way to answer mcp's request for a password to
- use. You can specify "none" and the user won't have a password. Specify
- "unused" and the user will have asterisk placed in the password field of his
- line in /etc/passwd. This guarantees that this account has no valid
- password and thus no one can log into this account and only the super-user
- can su to it (since su doesn't ask the super-user for passwords). This is
- useful for non-human accounts such as "daemon" and "news". If you specify
- "generate", mcp will generate a good (and utterly random) password for the
- user and tell you what it is. Other than these special cases what you type
- is what the password will be. Be aware that mcp silently disallows control
- characters and colons.
- .sp
- Remember, at any stage in the
- .ul
- add-user
- process you can just hit the interrupt key and the command will
- be aborted with no change.
-