ref: ecce29e29a3f6cd9f8690bb592dc68399b3708bf
parent: 0e3cecccaae7fb47774953fa9ea34571a6c07dea
author: sl <[email protected]>
date: Thu Feb 12 19:57:31 EST 2009
Add user/group management docs to werc site.
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+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](http://glenda.cat-v.org) 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 ...]