Create user in Unix shell

[Matthew]

I am using a version of Unix, and was wondering how to create a new
user. How might I go about doing this?

[Chris F.A. Johnson]

On 2004-06-03, Matthew wrote:

> I am using a version of Unix, and was wondering how to create a new
> user. How might I go about doing this?

Which version of Unix? There are different methods in different
versions (and even in the aame version).

Read the man pages for adduser, useradd and vipw.

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[Dave Hinz]

On 3 Jun 2004 16:54:54 -0700, Matthew <cplusplus14@hotmail.com> wrote:

> I am using a version of Unix, and was wondering how to create a new
> user. How might I go about doing this?

It depends. Shall we each answer for our favorite OS's, or would you
like to tell us what version of Unix you want answers for?

[Doug Freyburger]

Matthew wrote:

>
> I am using a version of Unix, and was wondering how to create a new
> user. How might I go about doing this?

Man pages passwd(1m), passwd(4), vipw(8 or 1m) and so on are good
starting points. If you want to do it with a GUI nearly all
vendors offer one and each vendor has a different one.