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        !            20: .TH ADDUSER 8 "June 24, 1990"
        !            21: .UC 4
        !            22: .SH NAME
        !            23: adduser \- procedure for adding new users
        !            24: .SH DESCRIPTION
        !            25: A new user must choose a login name, which must not already appear in
        !            26: .IR /etc/passwd or
        !            27: .IR /etc/aliases .
        !            28: It must also not begin with the hyphen (``-'') character.
        !            29: It is strongly recommended that it be all lower-case, and not contain
        !            30: the dot (``.'') character, as that tends to confuse mailers.
        !            31: An account can be added by editing a line into the passwd file; this
        !            32: must be done with the password file locked e.g. by using
        !            33: .IR chpass (1)
        !            34: or
        !            35: .IR vipw (8).
        !            36: .PP
        !            37: A new user is given a group and user id.
        !            38: Login's and user id's should be unique across the system, and often across
        !            39: a group of systems, since they are used to control file access.
        !            40: Typically, users working on similar projects will be put in the same groups.
        !            41: At the University of California, Berkeley, we have groups for system staff,
        !            42: faculty, graduate students, and special groups for large projects.
        !            43: .PP
        !            44: A skeletal account for a new user \*(lqernie\*(rq might look like:
        !            45: .IP
        !            46: ernie::25:30::0:0:Ernie Kovacs,508 Evans Hall,x7925,642-8202:/a/users/ernie:/bin/csh
        !            47: .PP
        !            48: For a description of each of these fields, see
        !            49: .IR passwd (5).
        !            50: .PP
        !            51: It is useful to give new users some help in getting started, supplying
        !            52: them with a few skeletal files such as
        !            53: .I \&.profile
        !            54: if they use \*(lq/bin/sh\*(rq, or
        !            55: .I \&.cshrc
        !            56: and
        !            57: .I \&.login
        !            58: if they use \*(lq/bin/csh\*(rq.
        !            59: The directory
        !            60: \*(lq/usr/share/skel\*(rq contains skeletal definitions of such files.
        !            61: New users should be given copies of these files which, for instance,
        !            62: use
        !            63: .IR tset (1)
        !            64: automatically at each login.
        !            65: .SH FILES
        !            66: .ta 2i
        !            67: /etc/master.passwd     user database
        !            68: .br
        !            69: /usr/share/skel        skeletal login directory
        !            70: .SH SEE ALSO
        !            71: chpass(1), finger(1), passwd(1), aliases(5), passwd(5), mkpasswd(8), vipw(8)
        !            72: .SH BUGS
        !            73: User information should (and eventually will) be stored elsewhere.

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