useradd command

[Marc Heyvaert]

Ramon,

Thanks!

Marc


--- Ramon van Alteren <ramon at forgottenland.net> wrote:
> On Thursday 18 March 2004 23:03, Marc Heyvaert
> wrote:
> > In order to add a user I thought that the useradd
> > command (I use bash, there doesn't seem to be a
> > adduser command) would be enough. Surely enough a
> new
> > user is created, but without a home directory.
> Reading
> > the man pages on the command, -m     The  user's
> home directory will be 
> created if it does not exist. I tought that it would
> > be sufficient to add the -d homedirectory option.
> So
> >
> > # useradd -d username (for the default)
> 
> I think you are looking for the -m option to the
> useradd command
> Here's the relevant part of the man-page:
> "
>  -m 
> 
> The files contained in skeleton_dir will be copied
> to  the  home
> directory  if  the  -k  option is used, otherwise
> the files contained 
> in /etc/skel will be used instead.  Any directories 
> contained  in  
> skeleton_dir  or  /etc/skel  will  be created in the
> user's home directory as 
> well.
> "  
> Cheers,
> -- 
> Ramon
> 
> ramon at forgottenland.net
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