System Administration Guide: Basic Administration

Example—Adding a Group and User With the groupadd and useradd Commands

The following example shows how to use the groupadd and useradd commands to add the group scutters and user scutter1 to files on the local system. These commands cannot be used to manage users in a name service environment.


# groupadd -g 102 scutters
# useradd -u 1003 -g 102 -d /export/home/scutter1 -s /bin/csh -c "Scutter 1" 
-m -k /etc/skel scutter1
64 blocks

For more information, see groupadd(1M) and useradd(1M).