Subject: Re: Adding a user by editing /etc/ files ?
To: Tony Hernandez <tony.hernandez@intellon.com>
From: Robert Elz <kre@munnari.OZ.AU>
List: port-i386
Date: 08/24/1999 14:34:15
    Date:        Mon, 23 Aug 1999 17:25:17 -0400
    From:        Tony Hernandez <tony.hernandez@intellon.com>
    Message-ID:  <4405E0B28BB5D111B596006097B1A22F3B6B70@COMMUNICATIONS>

  | I'm pretty confused as to how NetBSD handles user accounts..

vipw		(and add a passwd file line, just like all the others)

mkdir ~newuser
chown newuser:group ~newuser

passwd newuser

Done (unless you want to also set up a bunch of prototype dot files
or something).

There's also an addnerd package in the pkgsrc tree, but this is so simple,
I'm not sure why anyone bothers.

kre