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lnewusers − Create new user accounts |
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lnewusers [OPTION]... |
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Creates new user accounts using data read from standard input. The input data consists of lines, each line has 7 colon-separated fields: |
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User name |
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Plaintext password |
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User ID |
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lnewusers refuses to create users with user ID 0 (the root user ID). |
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Group |
If this field is a valid group ID, it is interpreted as a group ID, otherwise as a group name. If the field is empty, a group name equal to user name is used. |
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If the specified group does not exist, it is automatically created. If the group is specified with a group ID, the created group has group name equal to the user name. |
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GECOS |
The GECOS field is traditionally used to store user’s real name and other information. |
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Home directory |
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If this field is empty, a default specified by libuser configuration, or /home/username if libuser configuration does not specify a default, is used. |
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Login shell |
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If this field is empty, a default specified by libuser configuration is used. |
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Errors in user specifications are reported and processing continues on the next line. |
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−f, −−file=file |
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Read account data from file instead of standard input. |
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−i, −−interactive |
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Ask all questions when connecting to the user database, even if default answers are set up in libuser configuration. |
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−M, −−nocreatehome |
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Don’t create home directories. |
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−n, −−nocreatemail |
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Don’t create mail spool files. |
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The exit status is 0 on success, nonzero on fatal error. Errors in user specifications are not reflected in the exit status. |