adduser-ng(8)

adduser-ng8

Add a user to the system, and do many other useful things after that.

Usage

adduser-ng [options] GroupName Login

Overview

AddUser-NG is a new/improved/rewritten (call it as you want) version of adduser program. Is flexible, has plugins support, and several user interfaces.

Options

-h|--help

Show help and exit

-u|--user-interface

Use a differed user interface from the one specified in a configuration file

-v|--verbose

Be more verbose during execution (helpful only for developers)

-V|--version

Show program version and exit

-SS|--skip

Skip already executed plugins

Arguments

GroupName

Group name for/to which user will be crated (see the 'Group files' section in documentation for more details)

Login

Login name of the user

Examples

bash# adduser-ng clients john

Files

/etc/adduser-ng/adduser-ng.conf

Configuration file with default options.

/etc/adduser-ng/groups/

Directory for files with definitions of the groups. See /usr/share/doc/adduser-ng/example/adduser for an example of such a file.

Documentation

Full documentation on AddUser-NG, including configuration and FAQ is available at http://adduser.linux.pl/ and in adduser-ng-doc package (after installing this package look into /usr/share/adduser-ng-doc directory).

Releases

Unchanged in 2 releases since Debian 3.1 (Sarge).

  1. 3.1–4.0

Authors

See /usr/share/doc/adduser-ng/copyright

Bugs

Please report bugs to <[email protected]>

From adduser-ng 0.1.2-1.3 in Debian 4.0 (Etch). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.