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SavaJe OS 1.1.0

newuser(shell)

NAME

newuser — create a new user profile

SYNOPSIS

newuser [username]

DESCRIPTION

Create a new user (and become that user). The newuser command creates a dialog and asks for the username (if not supplied on the command line) and a password and password confirmation. If the directory /ramfs/users/ username does not already exist, it will be created. This directory is the home directory (system property user.home ). When the newuser command is completed, the current user (as shown by whoami(shell) is changed to the new user.

To customize the user environment, you can create and edit the file savaJe/user.props in your home directory.

The user directory contains the directory savaJe and the file savaJe/user.props , where users can define system-wide properties for customization purposes. A user directory for the user someuser would look like this (annotations follow the # characters):

/ramfs/users/someuser       # the user directory
    savaJe/ 
        user.props          # user properties

The user.props file sets system properties. Each line in the user.props file is of the form prop_name=prop_value . Some of these properties may be application-specific (i.e., applications may check these properties to allow customization for specific users). The following lines are examples from the file user.props :

MyApp.saveDir=/ramfs/users/someuser/
myproperty=I am someuser
Games.dir=/ramfs/users/someuser/games/

SEE ALSO

cd(shell)
login(shell)
login(doc)
passwd(shell)
prop(shell)
whoami(shell)