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Adding users via CLI in Snow Leopard

Use the dscl command. This example would create the user “luser”, like so:

dscl . -create /Users/luser
dscl . -create /Users/luser UserShell /bin/bash
dscl . -create /Users/luser RealName "Lucius Q. User"
dscl . -create /Users/luser UniqueID "1010"
dscl . -create /Users/luser PrimaryGroupID 80
dscl . -create /Users/luser NFSHomeDirectory /Users/luser

You can then use passwd to change the user’s password, or use:

dscl . -passwd /Users/luser password

You’ll have to create /Users/luser for the user’s home directory and change ownership so the user can access it, and be sure that the UniqueID is in fact unique.

This line will add the user to the administrator’s group:

dscl . -append /Groups/admin GroupMembership luser

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