November 16, 2005 USER 8

### NAME

user - manage user login information on the system

### SYNOPSIS

user add -D [options] user add [options] user user del -D [options] user del [options] user user info [options] user user mod [options] user

### DESCRIPTION

The user utility acts as a frontend to the useradd(8), usermod(8), userinfo(8), and userdel(8) commands. The utilities by default are built with ```EXTENSIONS`. This allows for further functionality.

For a full explanation of the options available, please see the relevant manual page.

### EXIT STATUS

### FILES

```/etc/skel/.[A-z]*`
  Skeleton files for new user
```/etc/usermgmt.conf`
  Configuration file for , group(8) and the backend commands mentioned above.

### SEE ALSO

chpass(1), group(5), passwd(5), usermgmt.conf(5), useradd(8), userdel(8), userinfo(8), usermod(8)

### HISTORY

The user utility first appeared in NetBSD1.5. It is based on the addnerd package by the same author.

### AUTHORS

The user utility was written by Alistair G. Crooks
<agc@NetBSD.org>.