Mac OS X Adding a User From the Command Line

1. Create a new entry in the local (/) domain under the category /users.

   niutil -create / /users/username

2. Create and set the shell property to bash.

   niutil -createprop / /users/username shell /bin/bash

3. Create and set the user’s full name.

   niutil -createprop / /users/username realname "User Name"

4. Create and set the user’s ID.

   niutil -createprop / /users/username uid 503

5. Create and set the user’s global ID property.

   niutil -createprop / /users/username gid 1000

6. Create and set the user name on the local domain, as opposed to the network domain or another domain.

   niutil -createprop / /users/username home /Local/Users/username

7. Make an entry for the password.

   niutil -createprop / /users/username _shadow_passwd

8. Set the password.

   passwd username

9. To make that user useful, you might want to add them to the admin group.

   niutil -appendprop / /groups/admin users username