Autzoo.1325
hacknews
utzoo!henry
Tue Feb  2 20:41:12 1982
newuser(1) improved
Newuser(1) is now smart enough to create /etc/passwd and /etc/group lines
for a new user, with proper locking of /etc/passwd to prevent snarlups in
the event that somebody is changing his password at the same time.  The
form of invoking it has changed to match:  it's now
	newuser [-e] name acctgroup
for the normal case.  acctgroup is the numeric accounting group from the
/usr/adm/acctnames file, and -e specifies an external user.

The create-a-new-user procedure has thus been simplified to picking an
account group, running newuser (and answering it when it prompts for the
password), and creating the /etc/users entry.