6.9 wajig adduser

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To allow a user to log on to the computer they will need a user account. A user account can be added with wajig’s adduser command. See also deluser to delete a user and disuser to disable a user.

$ wajig adduser fred mary
Adding user `fred' ...
Adding new group `fred' (1001) ...
Adding new user `fred' (1001) with group `fred' ...
Creating home directory `/home/fred' ...
Copying files from `/etc/skel' ...

Adding user `mary' ...
Adding new group `mary' (1002) ...
Adding new user `mary' (1002) with group `mary' ...
Creating home directory `/home/mary' ...
Copying files from `/etc/skel' ...

fred:oi8so4Tha4fei8Ew
mary:ohBu4eZeiz0bahth

To add users listed in a file, one username per line, we can use the -{-file} option:

$ cat students.txt
fred
mary

$ wajig adduser --file students.txt
Adding user `fred' ...
Adding new group `fred' (1001) ...
Adding new user `fred' (1001) with group `fred' ...
Creating home directory `/home/fred' ...
Copying files from `/etc/skel' ...

Adding user `mary' ...
Adding new group `mary' (1002) ...
Adding new user `mary' (1002) with group `mary' ...
Creating home directory `/home/mary' ...
Copying files from `/etc/skel' ...

fred:Xie2eij8oi8phoo8
mary:ohbi2Oor5ohg9phe

Another way to do the same thing is through the shell command line:

$ cat students.txt | xargs echo
fred mary

$ wajig adduser `cat students.txt | xargs echo`

To save just the username:password lines to file:

$ wajig adduser --file students.txt |
  grep -E -v '^(Adding|Creating|Copying)|^$' > students.pwd

$ cat students.pwd 
fred:fooTeeFai0Lah9Ie
mary:gei5Aceo4chai3ba

To update the password for an existing user, the adduser command will update the password while reporting that the user already exists.

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