Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2004 09:00:19 -0400 From: Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com> To: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: newuser Message-ID: <20040625090019.4817aef3.wmoran@potentialtech.com> In-Reply-To: <20040625124942.GB16335@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> References: <000001c45a68$b61c67b0$6601a8c0@james09sc2chsi> <20040625121845.GA16335@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> <20040625083025.58e21223.wmoran@potentialtech.com> <20040625124942.GB16335@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk>
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Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> wrote: > On Fri, Jun 25, 2004 at 08:30:25AM -0400, Bill Moran wrote: > > Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> wrote: > > > > > On Thu, Jun 24, 2004 at 11:58:41PM -0400, James Bell wrote: > > > > > > > > I have BSD UNIX. > > > > > > > > What commands should I use from the root to create a new user. > > > > > > Essentially: > > > > > > # pw useradd -n name -m > > > # passwd name > > > > > > I suggest that you immediately read the pw(8) man page and the > > > appropriate section of the Handbook: > > > > > > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/users.html > > > > Um ... no offense, Matt, but isn't that a bit overly difficult for a new > > user? > > I think that's an unreasonably pessimistic view of the capabilities of > new users. Not what I intended. > pw(8) is not (IMHO) particularly difficult to use. Agreed. > Yes, > there are a lot of different options for doing various things, but if > you adopt the principle of not fiddling with the bits you don't (yet) > understand, pw(8) basically does the right thing. pw(8) also has a > very nifty feature where you can just stick 'help' into the command > line and it tells you what options are available. My point was that adduser walks you through all the steps required to create a user (such as entering the GECOS stuff, and picking a shell, creating a home directory (although you handled that with -m)) Personally, I understand pw, and yet I find adduser to simply be more convenient. I guess that was my real point. The difficulty in user managemet on a Unix system (to a new user) is not the commands themselves, but all the various steps required to actually create a useful user account. adduser puts those all together in a "wizard" fashon, while pw gives you lots of opportunities to forget steps. > > Try adduser ... the manpage is pretty informative. > > TIMTOWTDI. OK, you're going to have to enlighten me by letting me know what that abbreviation stands for. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com
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