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From: mbarkah@slate.mines.colorado.edu (Ade Barkah)
Subject: Re: How to add user?
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Date: Sat, 19 Nov 1994 07:09:27 GMT
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Peter Lam (petelam@crl.com) wrote:
: Does anyone know how to add user in FreeBSD?  I tried adduser, but it 
: can't find the file. Where is the procedure adduser(8)? How do I use it?

Good question. I don't have it either (FreeBSD 2.0-a). Maybe
it's in a package I haven't installed. Anyhow, to add users
without adduser, you can use vipw and add the home directory
manually.

-Ade Barkah
ps. the adduser manpage is there. =) `find /...' turns out empty.
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