NEWUSER(8)

NAME
newuser  - add a new user to the system
newuserv - add a new user to the system, subject to validation

DESCRIPTION
This is newuser for GNO/ME. Its basic intent is to let people add themselves to the system without requiring the system administrator to do it all manually.

newuser will ask for real name, account name, terminal type and password (verifying the password once) and then create the directory /user/(account name) and copy a template gshrc into that directory. Then it will add the user to /etc/passwd and exit.

If the -v (verify) flag is selected, everything is done as normal, except that the new entry is appended to /var/adm/newuser/newusers instead of being appended to /etc/passwd.

FILES
/var/adm/newuser/newid -- This file holds the next available
userID. newuser will increment it as necessary.
/var/adm/newuser/gshrc -- This is the 'template' gshrc file
that all new users will get.  In addition to this, newuser will append
/etc/passwd -- Not required if you use -v.  But what's the point
in newuser if you don't have it? :)
/user/ -- Has to exist.  This is where the user's home directories
go.

newuser will time out after 60 seconds of operation.

AUTHOR
James Brookes
jamesb@cscihp.ecst.csuchico.edu