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- From: cflatter@nrao.edu (Chris Flatters)
- Subject: Re: Adding users
- Message-ID: <1992Jul24.215139.26837@nrao.edu>
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- Organization: NRAO
- References: <9207241849.AA06522@nms1.abb.com>
- Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 21:51:39 GMT
- Lines: 30
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- In article AA06522@nms1.abb.com, MLUCI@fuel.abb.com (Mark Lucia 2915) writes:
- > I tried the following:
- > 1. looking for a 'adduser' etc program/script
- >
- > 2. makeing an entry in the /etc/passwd file
- > makeing am entry in the /etc/master.passwd file
- > adding the home directory in /usr
- >
- > 3. rebooting the machine after 2
-
- The correct procedure is:
-
- 1 - Run the vipw(8) command. This will allow you to edit the password
- file and will automatically rebuild the master.passwd file when
- you exit. It may also do some other magic (I haven't looked at
- it too closely yet).
-
- 2 - (Optional) If you want the new user to be able to use the su
- command add his user name to the wheel group in /etc/group.
-
- 3 - Create a home directory for the new user. This should match
- the one given in /etc/passwd. It appears to be conventional
- to use /usr/<username> in 386BSD. Change its ownership to
- and group using chown(8) and chgrp(8). Unless you specified
- otherwise in /etc/passwd the new user's group will be staff
- (gid = 20).
-
-
- Chris Flatters
- cflatter@nrao.edu
-