thirdculture-werc/sites/werc.cat-v.org/docs/user_management.md

User and Group Management

User accounts and group membership are stored under etc/users/ and etc/groups/ respectively.

A user account consists of a directory under etc/users/ that contains files with that users account information, the only required file is password containing a password for the user. For example:

% ls etc/users/
eekee  uriel  yosyp
% cat etc/users/uriel/password
mypass

Groups consists of files named after the group name stored in etc/groups/, containing the names of the group members, one per line.

The group 'admin' is 'built-in' and any members in that group will have admin privileges for most werc apps by default.

Example

To create a user called glenda that is a member of the group rabbits you can do:

% mkdir etc/users/glenda/
% echo passw > etc/user/glenda/password
% echo glenda >> etc/users/rabbits

Utils

The script at bin/aux/addwuser.rc allows you to even more trivially add users.

addwuser.rc user_name user_pass [groups ...]