lnewusers - Unix, Linux Command
NAME
lnewusers - Create new user accounts
SYNOPSIS
lnewusers [OPTION]...
DESCRIPTION
Creates new user accounts using data read from standard input.The input data consits of lines, each line has 7 colon-separated fields:
| Tag | Description |
|---|---|
| User Name |
|
| Plaintext Password |
|
| User ID |
lnewusers refuses to create users with user ID 0 (the root user ID).
|
| 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.
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.
|
| SM]GECOS |
The SM]GECOS field is traditionally used to store users real name
and other information.
|
| Home |
If this field is empty,
a default specified by
libuser configuration,
or /home/username if
libuser configuration does not specify a default,
is used.
|
| Login |
If this field is empty,
a default specified by
libuser configuration is used.
|
OPTIONS
| Tag | Description |
|---|---|
| -f, --file=file | |
|
Read account data from file instead of standard input.
|
|
| -i, --interactive | |
|
Ask all questions when connecting to the user database,
even if default answers are set up in
libuser configuration.
|
|
| -M, --nocreatehome | |
|
Dont create home directories.
|
|
| -n, --nocreatemail | |
|
Dont create mail spool files.
|
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EXIT STATUS
The exit status is 0 on success, nonzero on fatal error. Errors in user specifications are not reflected in the exit status.Advertisements