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IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE 18.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL 19.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS 20.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) 21.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT 22.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY 23.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF 24.\" SUCH DAMAGE. 25.\" 26.\" $FreeBSD$ 27.\" 28.Dd March 30, 2004 29.Dt ADDUSER.CONF 5 30.Os 31.Sh NAME 32.Nm adduser.conf 33.Nd configuration file for the 34.Xr adduser 8 35utility 36.Sh DESCRIPTION 37The 38.Pa /etc/adduser.conf 39file is used to pre-set certain configuration options for 40the 41.Xr adduser 8 42utility. 43When 44.Xr adduser 8 45is invoked, it will check to see if this file exists and 46if so the configuration will be used or offered as the 47default settings. 48The 49.Nm 50file offers three types of configuration: 51.Bl -bullet 52.It 53Default settings offered by 54.Xr adduser 8 . 55These options are specified in the configuration file and offered 56as the default during every invocation of the 57.Xr adduser 8 58utility. 59.It 60Configuration options which can be set in 61.Nm , 62but overridden by passing a flag to 63.Xr adduser 8 . 64.It 65Configuration supported by 66.Xr adduser 8 67but not offered by a flag or during initial invocation. 68.El 69.Pp 70In the first case, these options can be set in 71.Nm 72but will still be offered when 73.Xr adduser 8 74is invoked. 75In the second case, 76.Xr adduser 8 77will read the configuration data unless a flag 78has been passed to override it. 79For example, the 80.Dq shell 81option. 82In the third case, the configuration will be utilized, but the 83user will never be prompted to modify the default setting by 84either a flag or an 85.Xr adduser 8 86prompt. 87For example, the 88.Dq upwexpire 89setting. 90.Pp 91The following configuration options can be set in 92.Nm : 93.Bl -tag -width "defaultgroups" -offset indent 94.It defaultLgroup 95The default group new users will be added to. 96.It defaultclass 97The default class to place users in as described in 98.Xr login.conf 5 . 99.It defaultgroups 100This option is used to specify what other groups the new account 101should be added to. 102.It passwdtype 103May be one of 104.Cm no , Cm none , Cm random , 105or 106.Cm yes 107as described in 108.Xr adduser 8 . 109As such, the text is not duplicated here and may be 110read in 111.Xr adduser 8 . 112.It homeprefix 113The default home directory prefix, usually 114.Pa /home . 115.It defaultshell 116The users default shell which may be any of the shells listed in 117.Pa /etc/shells . 118.It udotdir 119Defines the location of the default shell and environment 120configuration files. 121.It msgfile 122Location of the default new user message file. 123This message will be sent to all new users if specified 124here or at the 125.Xr adduser 8 126prompt. 127.It disableflag 128The default message enclosed in brackets for the 129lock account prompt. 130.It upwexpire 131The default password expiration time. 132Format of the date is either a 133.Ux 134time in decimal, or a date in 135.Sm off 136.Ql dd-mmm-yy Bq yy 137.Sm on 138format, where dd is the day, mmm is the month in either numeric or 139alphabetic format and year is either a two or four digit year. 140This option also accepts a relative date in the form of 141.Sm off 142.Sy n Bq mhdwoy 143.Sm on 144where 145.Sy n 146is a decimal, octal (leading 0) or hexadecimal (leading 0x) digit followed by the 147number of Minutes, Hours, Days, Weeks, Months or Years from the current date at 148which the expiration time is to be set. 149.It uexpire 150The default account expire time. 151The format is similar to the upwexpire option. 152.It ugecos 153The default information to be held in the gecos field of 154.Pa /etc/master.passwd . 155.It uuid 156The default user ID setting. 157This must be a number above 1000 and fewer than 65534. 158.El 159.Sh EXAMPLES 160The following is an example 161.Nm 162file created with the 163.Fl C 164.Xr adduser 8 165flag and modified. 166.Bd -literal 167# Configuration file for adduser(8). 168# NOTE: only *some* variables are saved. 169# Last Modified on Fri Mar 30 14:04:05 EST 2004. 170 171defaultLgroup= 172defaultclass= 173defaultgroups= 174passwdtype=yes 175homeprefix=/home 176defaultshell=/bin/csh 177udotdir=/usr/share/skel 178msgfile=/etc/adduser.msg 179disableflag= 180upwexpire=91d # Expire passwords 91 days after creation. 181.Ed 182.Sh SEE ALSO 183.Xr group 5 , 184.Xr passwd 5 , 185.Xr adduser 8 , 186.Xr pw 8 , 187.Xr rmuser 8 188.Sh HISTORY 189The 190.Nm 191manual page first appeared in 192.Fx 5.3 . 193.Sh AUTHORS 194This manual page was written by 195.An Tom Rhodes Aq trhodes@FreeBSD.org . 196