## Create, modify and remove user accounts ##

[Author](authors.html): _name_ _[[contact]]_ _[[BSD_flavour]]_

[Reviewer](technical_reviewers.html): Sean Swayze swayze@pcsage.biz FreeBSD/OpenBSD

[Reviewer](technical_reviewers.html): Alistair Crooks agc@NetBSD.org NetBSD

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### Concept ###

Managing user accounts is an important aspect of system administration.
Be aware that the account management utilities differ
across BSD systems and should be comfortable using each utility according
to a set of requirements.


### Introduction ###



TODO: maybe section [[Protect_authentication_data]] can cover vipw.

Details about the password database are covered in section [[Protect_authentication_data]].

TODO: this section is BSD specific, so break it down briefly for pw, adduser, useradd, etc per BSD flavor

[[Managing_user_accounts_on_openbsd]]

TODO: point to section [[Change_a_user's_default_shell]] about chsh, chpass, chfn which can do some of the same.
TODO: also section [[Lock_a_user_account_or_reset_a_locked_user_account]] is related. We need to put these four sections together in book

### Examples ###


### Practice Exercises ###


### More information ###

vipw(8); pw(8), adduser(8), adduser.conf(5), useradd(8), userdel(8),
rmuser(8), userinfo(8), usermod(8), and user(8)


