1lnewusers(1)                General Commands Manual               lnewusers(1)
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NAME

6       lnewusers - Create new user accounts
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SYNOPSIS

10       lnewusers [OPTION]...
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DESCRIPTION

14       Creates new user accounts using data read from standard input.
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16       The  input  data  consits  of  lines,  each  line has 7 colon-separated
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20       User Name
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27              lnewusers refuses to create users with user ID 0 (the root  user
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31       Group  If  this field is a valid group ID, it is interpreted as a group
32              ID, otherwise as a group name.  If the field is empty,  a  group
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35              If  the specified group does not exist, it is automatically cre‐
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40       GECOS  The  GECOS field is traditionally used to store user's real name
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44       Home   If this field is empty, a default specified by libuser  configu‐
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OPTIONS

58       -f, --file=file
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63              Ask all questions when connecting to the user database, even  if
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67       -M, --nocreatehome
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72              Don't create mail spool files.
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EXIT STATUS

76       The  exit  status  is  0 on success, nonzero on fatal error.  Errors in
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81libuser                           Jan 12 2005                     lnewusers(1)