How can I set up users?

[Max Bowsher]

Baras, Gal wrote:
> The complete answer to my question was that a user was required in
> /etc/passwd.  To find this user's ID, I had to use 'ls -ln' on some
> files I owned, then copy the Administrator line, change the ID from
> 500 to my own (400) and the pw_gecos field to "my_domain\my_user_ID".

Umm. That's kind of messy.

Try:

$ man mkpasswd
$ man mkgroup


Max.


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