lnewusers - Unix, Linux Command

NAME

lnewusers - Create new user accounts

lnewusers [OPTION]...

Creates new user accounts using data read from standard input.

The input data consits of lines, each line has 7 colon-separated fields:

Tag	Description
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.
`SM]GECOS`	The `SM]GECOS` field is traditionally used to store user’s real name and other information.
Home	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	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.

Tag	Description
-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.

The exit status is 0 on success, nonzero on fatal error. Errors in user specifications are not reflected in the exit status.

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