user
—
manage user login information on the system
The user
utility acts as a frontend to the
useradd(8),
usermod(8),
userinfo(8), and
userdel(8) commands. The
utilities by default are built with EXTENSIONS
. This
allows for further functionality.
For a full explanation of the options available, please see the
relevant manual page.
- /etc/skel/.[A-z]*
- Skeleton files for new user
- /etc/usermgmt.conf
- Configuration file for
user
,
group(8) and the backend
commands mentioned above.
The user
utility exits 0 on success,
and >0 if an error occurs.
The user
utility first appeared in
NetBSD 1.5. It is based on the
addnerd package by the same author.
The user
utility was written by
Alistair G. Crooks ⟨agc@NetBSD.org⟩.