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Re: [cobalt-users] AddUser within SSH
- Subject: Re: [cobalt-users] AddUser within SSH
- From: Jay Summers <jay@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed Jan 9 14:15:01 2002
- List-id: Mailing list for users to share thoughts on Cobalt products. <cobalt-users.list.cobalt.com>
> 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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