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1.1     ! root        1: .TH ADDUSER 8
        !             2: .UC 4
        !             3: .SH NAME
        !             4: adduser \- procedure for adding new users
        !             5: .SH DESCRIPTION
        !             6: A new user must choose a login name, which must not already appear in
        !             7: .I /etc/passwd.
        !             8: An account can be added by editing a line into the passwd file; this must
        !             9: be done with the password file locked e.g. by using
        !            10: .IR vipw (8).
        !            11: .PP
        !            12: A new user is given a group and user id.
        !            13: User id's should be distinct across a system, since they
        !            14: are used to control access to files.
        !            15: Typically, users working on
        !            16: similar projects will be put in the same group.  Thus at UCB we have
        !            17: groups for system staff, faculty, graduate students, and a few special
        !            18: groups for large projects.  System staff is group \*(lq10\*(rq for historical
        !            19: reasons, and the super-user is in this group.
        !            20: .PP
        !            21: A skeletal account for a new user \*(lqernie\*(rq would look like:
        !            22: .IP
        !            23: ernie::235:20:& Kovacs,508E,7925,6428202:/mnt/grad/ernie:/bin/csh
        !            24: .PP
        !            25: The first field is the login name \*(lqernie\*(rq.  The next field is the
        !            26: encrypted password which is not given and must be initialized using
        !            27: .IR passwd (1).
        !            28: The next two fields are the user and group id's.
        !            29: Traditionally, users in group 20 are graduate students and have account
        !            30: names with numbers in the 200's.
        !            31: The next field gives information about ernie's real name, office and office
        !            32: phone and home phone.
        !            33: This information is used by the
        !            34: .IR finger (1)
        !            35: program.
        !            36: From this information we can tell that ernie's real name is
        !            37: \*(lqErnie Kovacs\*(rq (the & here serves to repeat \*(lqernie\*(rq
        !            38: with appropriate capitalization), that his office is 508 Evans Hall,
        !            39: his extension is x2-7925, and this his home phone number is 642-8202.
        !            40: You can modify the
        !            41: .IR finger (1)
        !            42: program if necessary to allow different information to be encoded in
        !            43: this field.  The UCB version of finger knows several things particular
        !            44: to Berkeley \- that phone extensions start \*(lq2\-\*(rq, that offices ending
        !            45: in \*(lqE\*(rq are in Evans Hall and that offices ending in \*(lqC\*(rq are
        !            46: in Cory Hall.
        !            47: .PP
        !            48: The final two fields give a login directory and a login shell name.
        !            49: Traditionally, user files live on a file system which has the machines
        !            50: single letter
        !            51: .IR net (1)
        !            52: address as the first of two characters.  Thus on the Berkeley CS Department
        !            53: VAX, whose Berknet address is ``csvax'' abbreviated ``v'' the user file
        !            54: systems are mounted on ``/va'', ``/vb'', etc.
        !            55: On each such filesystem there are subdirectories there for each group
        !            56: of users, i.e.: \*(lq/va/staff\*(rq and \*(lq/vb/prof\*(rq.
        !            57: This is not strictly necessary but keeps the number of files in the
        !            58: top level directories reasonably small.
        !            59: .PP
        !            60: The login shell will default to \*(lq/bin/sh\*(rq if none is given.
        !            61: Most users at Berkeley choose \*(lq/bin/csh\*(rq so this is usually
        !            62: specified here.
        !            63: .PP
        !            64: It is useful to give new users some help in getting started, supplying
        !            65: them with a few skeletal files such as
        !            66: .I \&.profile
        !            67: if they use \*(lq/bin/sh\*(rq, or
        !            68: .I \&.cshrc
        !            69: and
        !            70: .I \&.login
        !            71: if they use \*(lq/bin/csh\*(rq.
        !            72: The directory
        !            73: \*(lq/usr/skel\*(rq contains skeletal definitions of such files.
        !            74: New users should be given copies of these files which, for instance,
        !            75: arrange to use
        !            76: .IR tset (1)
        !            77: automatically at each login.
        !            78: .SH FILES
        !            79: .ta 2i
        !            80: /etc/passwd    password file
        !            81: .br
        !            82: /usr/skel      skeletal login directory
        !            83: .SH SEE ALSO
        !            84: passwd(1), finger(1), chsh(1), chfn(1), passwd(5), vipw(8)
        !            85: .SH BUGS
        !            86: User information should be stored in its own data base separate from
        !            87: the password file.

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