Re: [cobalt-users] Manually adding users

["Denis Bystruev" <bystruev@xxxxxxxxx>]

One thing to note though, that just using adduser will call
/usr/sbin/adduser, which is standard Linux' useradd.

Cobalt's adduser is called by /usr/sbin/cobalt/adduser as root

Thanks,
Denis

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Roger Drye (Yahoo)" <roger_drye@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2001 8:50 PM
Subject: Re: [cobalt-users] Manually adding users


> NAME
>        adduser - adds a user on a RaQ without using the UI
>
>
>
> SYNOPSIS
>
>        adduser [ options... ]
>
>
>
> DESCRIPTION
>
>        adduser, adds a user to a virtual site.  The script checks
>
>        user defaults for missing information, these defaults  are
>
>        configured  in  the  Cobalt  user  interface on site admin
>
>        page, under the "Set User Defaults" button.   For  example
>
>        if  you  configure  Telnet/Shell access under this screen,
>
>        you can skip the -t option and all users created will have
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>        shell access enabled.
>
>
>
> OPTIONS
>
>        -d  [text] The fully quilified domain name of the site the
>
>        user will be added to.
>
>
>
>        -g [text] The group name of the site user  will  be  added
>
>        to.
>
>
>
>        -u  [text]  This  is the name used by the Cobalt server to
>
>        identify the user. It also appears in the URL of  the  web
>
>        site  and  the  email  address of the user. Only lowercase
>
>        alphanumeric characters,  periods  (.),  hyphens  (-)  and
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>        underscores (_) are allowed.
>
>
>
>        -f [text] This is the full name of the user separated by a
>
>        space ie. Doug West. If this option is not  provided,  the
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>        -u text is used.
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>
>
>        -p  [text]  Enter  a password containing 3 or more charac-
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>        ters.   A strong password is  one  that  is  difficult  to
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>        guess, not found in any dictionary, and is 8 or more char-
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>        acters with at least one non-alphabetical character. Pass-
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>        words are case sensitive.
>
>
>
>        -q  [number] This is the disk quota of the user. It is the
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>        total disk space allowed for  web  pages,  email  and  all
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>        other files.
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>
>
>        -a Enables the user to be a site administrator.
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>
>
>        -x  Enable  FrontPage  Server Extensions for the user web.
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>        FrontPage Server Extensions must be enabled for  the  site
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>        to enable any user web.
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>
>
>        -o  Enable APOP for this user.  APOP is a secure method of
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>        authentication to a POP3  server.   This  option  is  only
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>        available  to  certain  mail  readers  like  Fetchmail  or
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>        Eudora.
>
>
>
>        -e [list]  Enter  additional  names  that  the  user  will
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>        receive email as.  For example, enter laurie.price for the
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>        address  -  laurie.price@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx  Only  lowercase
>
>        alphanumeric  characters,  periods  (.),  hyphens  (-) and
>
>        underscores (_) are  allowed.  Separate  multiple  entries
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>        with a comma.
>
>
>
>        -w  [text]  the  Email  address  where you would like your
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>        email automatically forwarded.
>
>
>
>        -h Brief help text.
>
>
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "George Ewing" <george@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: "Cobalt" <cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Tuesday, April 17, 2001 9:39 PM
> Subject: [cobalt-users] Manually adding users
>
>
> > Can anyone give the the command to create users from the command prompt?
> >
> > This is for a raq3
> >
> > Cheers
> > G
> >
> > George Ewing
> >
> >
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