From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Dec 11 16:06:02 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id QAA26503 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 11 Dec 1997 16:06:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from interlinks.net (duey.interlinks.net [207.107.160.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id QAA26494 for ; Thu, 11 Dec 1997 16:05:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bill@duey.interlinks.net) Received: from localhost by interlinks.net (8.8.8/) id SAA18723; Thu, 11 Dec 1997 18:58:06 GMT Date: Thu, 11 Dec 1997 18:58:06 +0000 (GMT) From: Bill Sandiford To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Help with adduser and groups Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I need some help with adduser I need to execute adduser from a script all on one line. I need to add the username, password, id#, group#, fullname, home dir, and shell. Being new to FreeBSD (and UNIX in general) I am having a hard time figuring this out. To make problems worse, all my users must have the same login group however I can't figure this out. The man page on group says that a group cannot have more than 200 members. Is this true? If so, how am I going to be able to associate all my users as belonging to one group. Remember, all users are added from a script. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Bill Sandiford Bill@duey.interlinks.net