Re: adding users

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On Tue, 2006-06-27 at 15:25 -0400, Margaret_Doll wrote:
> useradd -u 515 -g 100 -c "The Name of the User" -d /home/directory  
> UserAccountName
> 
> where -u is the user's unique id
>              -g is the group to which he/she will belong
> 
> You just have to create the passwd for the user after this.
> 
> I do a "tail" on /etc/passwd so I can determine the next "-u" number
> to use.

Ordinarily, if you hadn't specified "-u 515" (or another number) in the
useradd statement, the system would pick the next highest available one
by itself.

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