O'Reilly Network: Top Ten Mac OS X Tips for Unix Geeks [Oct. 22, 2002]

The quick way to add a user or a group is to feed a record in either the passwd or the group format into niload (commands you type are shown in bold; the ? is used by the here-document syntax that starts with <




% sudo niload passwd . <
? rothman:*:701:20::0:0:Ernest Rothman:/Users/rothman:/bin/tcsh

? EOF