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From: Michael Hancock <michaelh@cet.co.jp>
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You should also man vipw and adduser.  You don't want to edit the passwd
file directly so use one of the two.

You might want to delete the user you just added and use adduser.  In
adduser you can invite the user to wheel and it will DTRT.

Regards,


Mike


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