Scripts to create users and groups from the Terminal

Dec 19, '05 04:56:00AM

Contributed by: alecs

Creating users in 10.3+ from the command line has been covered here before, but I just wanted to share some tools I've been working on and using for creating and deleting users and groups. We're starting to get a fair number of Macs around here, and I wanted a useradd-like command for managing accounts. So I did what every good Unix user does and wrote my own set of tools.

You can grab them from my personal software page if you're interested in using them yourself. Please let me know about bugs, etc. that you find. Like I said, I've been using them here a bit, but I'm sure there are cases I haven't found where they might break.

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