Subject: Re: No 'adduser'?
To: William A Carrel [writer of souls] <llandril@baker.cnw.com>
From: Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@loki.stanford.edu>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 12/06/1995 09:50:04
>
> I just got BSD1.1 from eskimo.com, but it seems an odd omission was made.
> 'adduser' is missing. Have I been hanging out with Linux folks too long,
> or should this be there? Where do I get it?
Uhm, adduser does exist. It's in the man pages. :-)
I think the current way for adding a user is rather bone-headed. You
have to manually edit the password file to add the user. Then you
have to manually add the directies, I believe.
To add a user, edit the password file with vipw.
Take care,
Bill