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Perl in a Nutshell, 2nd Edition
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Perl in a Nutshell, 2nd Edition

by Nathan Patwardhan, Ellen Siever, Stephen Spainhour
June 2002
Beginner content levelBeginner
759 pages
80h 42m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Name

UserCreate

Synopsis

UserCreate (server, username, password, passwordage, privilege, 
homedir, comment, flags, scriptpath)

Creates a new user with the specified settings:

server

Name of the server

username

Name of new user

password

The user’s password

passwordage

Amount of time before password expires

privilege

Privilege settings of the new user, which can be one of the following:

USER_PRIV_MASK 
USER_PRIV_GUEST 
USER_PRIV_USER 
USER_PRIV_ADMIN
homedir

Pathname of the user’s home directory

comment

A string containing a comment about the user

flag

A flag containing user creation settings, which can be one of the following:

UF_TEMP_DUPLICATE_ACCOUNT 
UF_NORMAL_ACCOUNT 
UF_INTERDOMAIN_TRUST_ACCOUNT 
UF_WORKSTATION_TRUST_ACCOUNT 
UF_SERVER_TRUST_ACCOUNT 
UF_MACHINE_ACCOUNT_MASK 
UF_ACCOUNT_TYPE_MASK 
UF_DONT_EXPIRE_PASSWD 
UF_SETTABLE_BITS 
UF_SCRIPT 
UF_ACCOUNTDISABLE 
UF_HOMEDIR_REQUIRED 
UF_LOCKOUT 
UF_PASSWD_NOTREQD 
UF_PASSWD_CANT_CHANGE
scriptpath

Pathname for the user’s login script

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