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+.\"	$NetBSD: adduser.8,v 1.4 1994/11/30 19:36:21 jtc Exp $
+.\"
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+.\"     @(#)adduser.8	8.1 (Berkeley) 6/5/93
+.\"
+.Dd June 5, 1993
+.Dt ADDUSER 8
+.Os BSD 4
+.Sh NAME
+.Nm adduser
+.Nd procedure for adding new users
+.Sh DESCRIPTION
+A new user must choose a login name, which must not already appear in
+.Pa /etc/passwd
+or
+.Pa /etc/aliases .
+It must also not begin with the hyphen
+.Ql Fl
+character.
+It is strongly recommended that it be all lower-case, and not contain
+the dot
+.Ql \&.
+character, as that tends to confuse mailers.
+An account can be added by editing a line into the passwd file; this
+must be done with the password file locked e.g. by using
+.Xr chpass 1
+or
+.Xr vipw 8 .
+.Pp
+A new user is given a group and user id.
+Login and user id's should be unique across the system, and often across
+a group of systems, since they are used to control file access.
+Typically, users working on similar projects will be put in the same groups.
+At the University of California, Berkeley, we have groups for system staff,
+faculty, graduate students, and special groups for large projects.
+.Pp
+A skeletal account for a new user
+\*(lqernie\*(rq
+might look like:
+.Bd -literal
+ernie::25:30::0:0:Ernie Kovacs,508 Evans Hall,x7925,
+	642-8202:/a/users/ernie:/bin/csh
+.Ed
+.Pp
+For a description of each of these fields, see
+.Xr passwd 5 .
+.Pp
+It is useful to give new users some help in getting started, supplying
+them with a few skeletal files such as
+.Pa \&.profile
+if they use
+.Pa /bin/sh ,
+or
+.Pa \&.cshrc
+and
+.Pa \&.login
+if they use
+.Pa /bin/csh .
+The directory
+.Pa /usr/share/skel
+contains skeletal definitions of such files.
+New users should be given copies of these files which, for instance,
+use
+.Xr tset 1
+automatically at each login.
+.Sh FILES
+.Bl -tag -width /etc/master.passwdxx -compact
+.It Pa /etc/master.passwd
+user database
+.It Pa /usr/share/skel
+skeletal login directory
+.El
+.Sh SEE ALSO
+.Xr chpass 1 ,
+.Xr finger 1 ,
+.Xr passwd 1 ,
+.Xr aliases 5 ,
+.Xr passwd 5 ,
+.Xr pwd_mkdb 8 ,
+.Xr vipw 8
+.Sh BUGS
+User information should (and eventually will) be stored elsewhere.