Creating a user from the command line

[Fahrvergnuugen]

Does anyone know how to create a new user from the command line?

I forgot to burn a CD for a friend back at school before I left [my computer is still at school running, but its logged out]

So what I want to do is ssh into my computer, create a login for him, copy the files for the CDR from my home directory to his so he can login and burn the CDR. The user would only be temporary.

 

[hazmat]

This is one area I hate OS X/darwin compared to other UNIX's. It's not a simple adduser/useradd command. You need to use NetInfo. niutil I think it is? I haven't gotten to that yet in my Mac OS X For UNIX Geeks book. You'll get better responses I think in the UNIX forum.

Good luck.

 

[ex2bot]

From Mac OS X System & Misc. Software. . .



Doug

 

[Eckhart]

make sure you're in (t)csh:

> set NEWUSER="/ /users/temp"

> niutil -create $NEWUSER
> niutil -createprop $NEWUSER uid 800
> niutil -createprop $NEWUSER expire 1
> niutil -createprop $NEWUSER home /tmp

and so on...

Just type in 'niutil' and it will show the available options.

Notice that '/users/bill' is a path in the NetInfo DB and not a local path. '/' specifies the DB itself.

And don't forget 'passwd temp' after all...