newuser

[Jerry McAllister]

> 
> On Fri, Jun 25, 2004 at 08:30:25AM -0400, Bill Moran wrote:
> > Matthew Seaman <m.seaman at infracaninophile.co.uk> wrote:
> >=20
> > > On Thu, Jun 24, 2004 at 11:58:41PM -0400, James Bell wrote:
> > > > =20
> > > > I have BSD UNIX.
> > > > =20
> > > > What commands should I use from the root to create a new user.
> > >=20
> > > Essentially:
> > >=20
> > >     # pw useradd -n name -m
> > >     # passwd name
> > >=20
> > > I suggest that you immediately read the pw(8) man page and the
> > > appropriate section of the Handbook:
> > >=20
> > >     http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/users.html
> >=20
> > Um ... no offense, Matt, but isn't that a bit overly difficult for a new
> > user?
> 
> I think that's an unreasonably pessimistic view of the capabilities of
> new users.  pw(8) is not (IMHO) particularly difficult to use.  Yes,
> there are a lot of different options for doing various things, but if
> you adopt the principle of not fiddling with the bits you don't (yet)
> understand, pw(8) basically does the right thing.  

A little ST here (Side Track, cousin of OT):

I like that - maybe that sort of phrase should be a standard piece 
of boiler plate in a lot of man pages and various other parts  of 
documentation, eg

>                           but if
> you adopt the principle of not fiddling with the bits you don't (yet)
> understand, XXXXXX  basically does the right thing.

////jerry

>                                            pw(8) also has a
> very nifty feature where you can just stick 'help' into the command
> line and it tells you what options are available.
> > Try adduser ... the manpage is pretty informative.
> 
> TIMTOWTDI.
> 
> 	Cheers,
> 
> 	Matthew
> 
> --=20
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