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diff --git a/share/man/man8/Makefile b/share/man/man8/Makefile index 2f5d1cf..0b16544 100644 --- a/share/man/man8/Makefile +++ b/share/man/man8/Makefile @@ -1,8 +1,7 @@ # @(#)Makefile 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/5/93 # $FreeBSD$ -MAN= adding_user.8 \ - crash.8 \ +MAN= crash.8 \ diskless.8 \ intro.8 \ MAKEDEV.8 \ diff --git a/share/man/man8/adding_user.8 b/share/man/man8/adding_user.8 deleted file mode 100644 index 2f4dab1..0000000 --- a/share/man/man8/adding_user.8 +++ /dev/null @@ -1,117 +0,0 @@ -.\" Copyright (c) 1980, 1991, 1993 -.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. -.\" -.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without -.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions -.\" are met: -.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright -.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. -.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright -.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the -.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. -.\" 3. All advertising materials mentioning features or use of this software -.\" must display the following acknowledgement: -.\" This product includes software developed by the University of -.\" California, Berkeley and its contributors. -.\" 4. Neither the name of the University nor the names of its contributors -.\" may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software -.\" without specific prior written permission. -.\" -.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE REGENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND -.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE -.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE -.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE REGENTS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE -.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL -.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS -.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) -.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT -.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY -.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF -.\" SUCH DAMAGE. -.\" -.\" @(#)adduser.8 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/5/93 -.\" $FreeBSD$ -.\" -.Dd June 5, 1993 -.Dt ADDING_USER 8 -.Os -.Sh NAME -.Nm adding_user -.Nd procedure for adding new users -.Sh DESCRIPTION -A new user must choose a login name, which must not already appear in -.Pa /etc/passwd -or -.Pa /etc/mail/aliases . -It must also not begin with the hyphen -.Sq Fl -character. -It is strongly recommended that it be all lower-case, and not contain -the dot -.Ql .\& -character, as that tends to confuse mailers. -An account can be added by editing a line into the passwd file; this -must be done with the password file locked e.g.\& by using -.Xr chpass 1 -or -.Xr vipw 8 . -.Pp -A new user is given a group and user id. -Login and user id's should be unique across the system, and often across -a group of systems, since they are used to control file access. -Typically, users working on similar projects will be put in the same groups. -At the University of California, Berkeley, we have groups for system staff, -faculty, graduate students, and special groups for large projects. -.Pp -A skeletal account for a new user -.Dq ernie -might look like: -.Bd -literal -ernie::25:30::0:0:Ernie Kovacs,508 Evans Hall,x7925, - 642-8202:/a/users/ernie:/bin/csh -.Ed -.Pp -For a description of each of these fields, see -.Xr passwd 5 . -.Pp -It is useful to give new users some help in getting started, supplying -them with a few skeletal files such as -.Pa \&.profile -if they use -.Pa /bin/sh , -or -.Pa \&.cshrc -and -.Pa \&.login -if they use -.Pa /bin/csh . -The directory -.Pa /usr/share/skel -contains skeletal definitions of such files. -New users should be given copies of these files which, for instance, -use -.Xr tset 1 -automatically at each login. -.Sh FILES -.Bl -tag -width /etc/master.passwdxx -compact -.It Pa /etc/master.passwd -user database -.It Pa /usr/share/skel -skeletal login directory -.El -.Sh SEE ALSO -.Xr chpass 1 , -.Xr finger 1 , -.Xr passwd 1 , -.Xr aliases 5 , -.Xr passwd 5 , -.Xr adduser 8 , -.Xr pwd_mkdb 8 , -.Xr vipw 8 -.Sh HISTORY -The -.Nm -utility appeared in -.Bx 3.0 . -.Sh BUGS -User information should (and eventually will) be stored elsewhere. |