Adding Users
OpenBSD uses many of the standard UNIX user- and password-management programs, such as passwd(1) and vipw(8). It also includes a friendly interactive user-creation program, adduser(8). We’ll cover adduser first, and then look at some of the more advanced tools.
Adding Users Interactively
Only the root user can run adduser. If you start adduser at the command line without specifying any options, it drops you into a friendly interactive dialog where you can create new users.
Configuring adduser
The first time adduser runs, it asks a series of questions to determine its default settings. It saves these default settings, but you can change the defaults later.
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