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# 267654 19-Jun-2014 gjb

Copy stable/9 to releng/9.3 as part of the 9.3-RELEASE cycle.

Approved by: re (implicit)
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation

# 240755 20-Sep-2012 issyl0

MFC r240530 from HEAD:
- Remove a reference to CVS and freefall from a user-facing man page.

PR: docs/171658
Approved by: gabor (mentor)


# 225736 22-Sep-2011 kensmith

Copy head to stable/9 as part of 9.0-RELEASE release cycle.

Approved by: re (implicit)


# 177280 16-Mar-2008 brueffer

In the description of the password field, -w was meant, not the
nonexistant -p flag.

PR: 120122
Submitted by: Andy Kosela <andy.kosela@gmail.com>
MFC after: 3 days


# 175719 27-Jan-2008 mtm

Add the -M command-line option, which will set home directory permissions.
Works both in interactive or batch mode. This is a heavily modified version
of the patch submitted in the PR.

PR: bin/105060
MFC after: 1 week


# 172823 19-Oct-2007 mtm

Allow adding a user(s) to additional groups in batch mode as well.

Submitted by: Eygene Ryabinkin <rea-fbsd@codelabs.ru> (modulo minor changes)
MFC after: 2 weeks


# 164926 05-Dec-2006 ceri

Flush my typo fix queue for this directory.


# 164925 05-Dec-2006 ceri

Fix typos.


# 162806 29-Sep-2006 ru

Markup fixes.


# 159364 07-Jun-2006 trhodes

Add adding_user.8 to SEE ALSO, note that usernames may contain any character
but not being with a hyphen, similar to adding_user.8.

PR: 35732


# 130160 06-Jun-2004 mtm

Accept full path names in addition to base names for shells.

Make explicit in the documentation that valid shells need to be
supplied only if the -S option is not given.


# 130084 04-Jun-2004 ru

Fixed a typo.


# 127644 30-Mar-2004 trhodes

Add an adduser.conf manual page.
Hook it to the build in Makefile.
Xref from adduser.8.
Update adduser.8's BUGS section.
Bump the date on adduser.8.


# 127076 16-Mar-2004 mtm

o Add an -S option to not attempt to ascertain the validity of a shell.
o Add a -D option to not attempt to create the home directory.
o Treat the /nonexistent home directory specially. It means the user has
no home directory and it should not be created.
o Update Copyright year and my email.


# 119964 10-Sep-2003 ru

mdoc(7): Properly mark C headers.


# 116627 20-Jun-2003 mtm

Add support for the special shell nologin.

Prodded by: mikeh


# 112433 20-Mar-2003 mtm

Add a -g option to specify a default login group.

Approved by: markm (mentor)(implicit)


# 110320 04-Feb-2003 fanf

Better gender-neutral language.

Submitted by: sheldonh


# 108317 27-Dec-2002 schweikh

english(4) police.


# 107582 04-Dec-2002 ru

mdoc(7) police: overhaul.

Approved by: re


# 107543 03-Dec-2002 scottl

Replace the perl versions of adduser and rmuser with shell script versions.

Submitted by: Mike Makonnen <mtm@identd.net>
Approved by: re


# 107312 27-Nov-2002 ru

mdoc(7) police: markup fixes.

Approved by: re


# 106671 08-Nov-2002 fanf

Clarify the unique groups scheme by mentioning that the 002 umask
is instead of the usual 022 umask, and explain that what the scheme
still prevents is unwanted changes, not prying eyes.

While I'm here, mess with the phrasing and line-breaks a bit.


# 99968 14-Jul-2002 charnier

The .Nm utility


# 89921 28-Jan-2002 yar

Remove the newly added -force option because it made adduser(8)
less robust to possible errors of the user/admin while adduser(8)
had been intended to minimize their possibility.
An alternative way of introducing strange symbols into usernames
to be committed really soon.


# 89362 14-Jan-2002 ru

yp(4) -> yp(8).

PR: docs/30797


# 88828 02-Jan-2002 yar

Document a new option: -force.


# 79755 15-Jul-2001 dd

Remove whitespace at EOL.


# 79537 10-Jul-2001 ru

mdoc(7) police: removed HISTORY info from the .Os call.


# 71898 01-Feb-2001 ru

mdoc(7) police: split punctuation characters + misc fixes.


# 70403 27-Dec-2000 ru

Prepare for mdoc(7)NG.


# 70015 14-Dec-2000 ru

mdoc(7) police: removed history info from the .Os FreeBSD call.


# 68965 20-Nov-2000 ru

mdoc(7) police: use the new features of the Nm macro.


# 68575 10-Nov-2000 ru

Avoid use of direct troff requests in mdoc(7) manual pages.


# 64618 13-Aug-2000 gshapiro

Complete migration of aliases file to /etc/mail/aliases.
The maintainers of share/examples/diskless/README.TEMPLATING and mergemaster
have been contacted so those may be updated as well.


# 57782 06-Mar-2000 sheldonh

Remove more single-space hard sentence breaks.


# 57673 01-Mar-2000 sheldonh

Remove single-space hard sentence breaks. These degrade the quality
of the typeset output, tend to make diffs harder to read and provide
bad examples for new-comers to mdoc.


# 50479 27-Aug-1999 peter

$Id$ -> $FreeBSD$


# 49136 27-Jul-1999 nik

Remove references to the non-existent addgroup(8) and rmgroup(8)
commands.

PR: docs/12659
Submitted by: Mark Diekhans <markd@Grizzly.COM>


# 38406 17-Aug-1998 wosch

Removing -batch option from adduser. Adduser was written as
an *interactive* command for newbies. The pw(8) does now a much better
job for adding users from command line. Also, the -batch option is
not well tested, buggy and unsupported.


# 34660 18-Mar-1998 hoek

MF22: Remove confusing comma


# 33355 14-Feb-1998 steve

Clarify the -batch arguments.

PR: 5677
Submitted by: Adrian Filipi-Martin <adrian@virginia.edu>


# 33026 02-Feb-1998 wosch

Typo.


# 28997 01-Sep-1997 charnier

Cosmetic changes.


# 26827 23-Jun-1997 steve

Fix a minor nit in the .Dd macro invocation so that
the revision date is displayed correctly.


# 25371 01-May-1997 ache

1. Deal with login classes now
2. Turn on send_message by default for security reasons (mailbox
must be pre-created)


# 22997 22-Feb-1997 peter

Revert $FreeBSD$ to $Id$


# 21880 19-Jan-1997 wosch

Sort cross references.


# 21673 14-Jan-1997 jkh

Make the long-awaited change from $Id$ to $FreeBSD$

This will make a number of things easier in the future, as well as (finally!)
avoiding the Id-smashing problem which has plagued developers for so long.

Boy, I'm glad we're not using sup anymore. This update would have been
insane otherwise.


# 21022 29-Dec-1996 wosch

increase username length limit to 16


# 20830 22-Dec-1996 mpp

Minor internal mdoc usage changes.


# 20826 22-Dec-1996 mpp

Minor style fixes.

I also renamed the adduser "-quit" option to "-quiet", since
it is supposed to be the same as the -s/-silent option,
and -quit must have beena typo.


# 19832 17-Nov-1996 wosch

install rmuser, addgroup, rmgroup in /usr/sbin


# 17866 28-Aug-1996 adam

typo police

I couldn't make any sense of the sentence "Eval variables in this file." so I
left it alone.

also allow creation of new local group when NIS groups are used.
this can probably be done more elegantly, and needs more thought.


# 17849 27-Aug-1996 wosch

sync copyright with /usr/share/examples/etc/bsd-style-copyright


# 17786 22-Aug-1996 mpp

Use the .Fx macro where appropriate.


# 16264 09-Jun-1996 wosch

documented login name limit
Obtained from: mailing list


# 13744 30-Jan-1996 mpp

Fix a bunch of spelling errors in a bunch of man pages.


# 6960 08-Mar-1995 ache

o more options
o less restrictive, you can choise uid, gid ...
o invite user into some groups
o encrypted passwords with crypt
o batch mode (for instance, this works now:
$ adduser -batch jkh guest,uuadmin "Jordan K. Hubbard" passwd
see manpage for more details)

Submitted by: Wolfram Schneider <wosch@cs.tu-berlin.de>


# 5451 09-Jan-1995 jkh

Correct some of the english.


# 5450 09-Jan-1995 jkh

Wolfram Schneider <wosch@cs.tu-berlin.de>:
o manpage
o save configuration in /etc/adduser.conf
o send message file (/etc/adduser.message)
Submitted by: woschcs.tu-berlin.de


# 5354 03-Jan-1995 jkh

Update adduser to version by Wolfram Schneider. Sorry, Gary, but his
adduser is a Cadillac to your Volkswagen.. :-)
Submitted by: wosch@cs.tu-berlin.de


# 5306 31-Dec-1994 ache

Change ${COPY} to -c, always needed here
Remove manpage reference to BSD adduser, add pwd_mkdb reference


# 5287 30-Dec-1994 ache

Change man section


# 5285 30-Dec-1994 ache

Yet one cleanup