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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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