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4-4 Issue 2 April 1996
UnixWare Administration
To Add New Logins: UNIX Shell
To Add New Logins:
UNIX Shell
Introduction You can use the UNIX shell commands to add Proxy Agent logins,
or you can choose another method.
When to use Add a new Proxy Agent user to your system after you have
installed UnixWare and tested the network connections.
Procedure Use the following steps to add a new login.
Step Action
1 Log in as root.
2 Enter the following command on a single command
line. All arguments are optional except login_ID.
usradd -u usr_number -g primary_group_
ID\-G supplementary_group_ID -c
comment\-d home-_directory -s program -m
login_ID
3 Enter the following command to assign a password for
your new user:
passwd options login_ID
4 Enter the appropriate password options.
Hint: The following table describes some of these
options.
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