Creating New Accounts

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1. Add an entry to /etc/passwd, with no passwd (which means user::234:454) where 234 is the user ID (add it under the CLASS ACCOUNT or SEP or whatever section in the password file. Make sure to check that the user id is not already in use)
2. Add a corresponding entry to /etc/group
3. Add the user name to valid mail aliases in /usr/local/share/admin/mail/aliases.fixed
4. Run ./makealiases
5. passwd newuser
6. mkdir /homes/sep/newuser (or /homes/them/newuser or whatever)
7. chown newuser.group /homes/sep/newuser (or /homes/them/newuser or whatever)
8. Log in as the new user (ssh newuser@koko)
9. cd /usr/local/share/setup/skel
10. ./install_setup
11. cd ~
12. /usr/local/share/setup/skel/machine_dep
13. log out and back in as new user again, everything should be set.

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Modified: 10/25/07, 15:05:10 PDT , by bill
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