Figure 4: mkuser command-line arguments

NAME

mkuser - create a new user

SYNOPSIS

mkuser firstname lastname logname username uid group home_directory shell
password

DESCRIPTION

mkuser is a perl script for creating new users on UNIX systems.

OPTIONS

firstname        First name of the user.

lastname         Last name of the user.

logname          Maximum of 8 character name of the user for login.

username         Basename of the users home directory.
May be any length.

uid              Unique ID for the user. 'next' finds the next unused uid.

group            Group of the user.

home_directory   Dirname of the home directory.
Leading and trailing '/' is omited.

shell            Shell of the user.

password         Password for the new user. Password is the logname if not
specified or generated.