On 8/10/12 8:50 PM, Curt Lundgren wrote:
I confess my backward ways. When I add a new user I do the following:
* edit /etc/passwd, copy the last line, usually adding a user with the
next available UID above 500 and setting the group to 100, like
foouser:x:501:100:Foo User:/home/foouser:/bin/your-favorite-shell
* edit /etc/shadow: copy the last line, as above foouser:
some-password-string:increment-the-above-number by a couple::99999::::
* create a new directory in /home, like mkdir /home/foouser; chown
foouser:user foouser
* At this point the new user is valid on the system. It may be
wrong-so-wrong, but it's always worked for me
* You don't benefit/suffer from the default content in /etc/skel/,
you're starting from scratch
Call me crazy, call me a cab. I've never gotten comfortable with the
adduser syntax, so the easy-sleasy way for me is the above.
Use vipw, don't edit /etc/passwd, /etc/shadow, /etc/group directly if
you can help it.
adduser <username>
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