lnewusers (1) - Linux Manuals
lnewusers: Create new user accounts
NAME
lnewusers - Create new user accounts
SYNOPSIS
lnewusers [OPTION]...DESCRIPTION
Creates new user accounts using data read from standard input.The input data consists of lines, each line has 7 colon-separated fields:
- User name
-
- Plaintext password
-
- User ID
-
lnewusers
refuses to create users with user ID 0 (the root user ID).
- Group
-
If this field is a valid group ID,
it is interpreted as a group ID,
otherwise as a group name.
If the field is empty,
a group name equal to user name is used.
If the specified group does not exist, it is automatically created. If the group is specified with a group ID, the created group has group name equal to the user name.
- GECOS
-
The GECOS field is traditionally used to store user's real name
and other information.
- Home directory
-
If this field is empty,
a default specified by
libuser
configuration,
or /home/username if
libuser
configuration does not specify a default,
is used.
- Login shell
-
If this field is empty,
a default specified by
libuser
configuration is used.
Errors in user specifications are reported and processing continues on the next line.
OPTIONS
- -f, --file=file
-
Read account data from file instead of standard input.
- -i, --interactive
-
Ask all questions when connecting to the user database,
even if default answers are set up in
libuser
configuration.
- -M, --nocreatehome
-
Don't create home directories.
- -n, --nocreatemail
-
Don't create mail spool files.
EXIT STATUS
The exit status is 0 on success, nonzero on fatal error. Errors in user specifications are not reflected in the exit status.