From GoboLinux Knowledge Base

Contents 1 Overview 1.1 Usage 1.1.1 Options 1.1.2 Other considerations 1.2 Examples

Overview

Creates an account for a new user and register it on the system. This script adds an option to populate this user's home directory with a customized settings environment.

Usage

  AddUser [<options>] <login>

Options

• -h, --help - Show this help.
• --version - Show program version.
• -v, --verbose - Enable verbose mode.
• -c, --comment <entry> - Text to be stored in the comment field of the UNIX password file.
• -f, --full-name <entry> - User's full name.
• -r, --room-number <entry> - User's office number.
• -w, --work-phone <entry> - User's work phone.
• -h, --home-phone <entry> - User's home phone.
• -o, --other <entry> - User's home phone.
• -s, --shell <entry> - User's default shell. The default value is /bin/zsh.
• -p, --password <entry> - Encoded user's password.
• -S, --skel - Populate home directory with customized settings.

Other considerations

User information such as full name and office number can be viewed with programs such as finger(1) and modified with chfn(1).

Examples

  AddUser -f 'Hisham Muhammad' hisham