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Re: [cobalt-users] AddUser within SSH



> What kind of user are you looking to add?
> 
> For a "real" user user, it's simply
> # adduser username
> # passwd username
> <passwords here>
> 
> If you want to get fancy, you can set their shell with -s (I use /bin/false
> to prevent users from loging on).  Many other options exist.
> 
> Try this:
> # man adduser
> to see the online manual entry for the command, it does a fair job of
> explaining it.

As a side note, you can also use cadduser to add users that will show up in
the GUI. If they're not installed already you can get them from here:

ftp://ftp.cobaltnet.com/pub/users/jeffb/shell-tools/

HTH,
j
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