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This is the BSDA Study Guide Book written via a wiki collaboration. This is a work in progress. You may contribute to or discuss this specific page at http://bsdwiki.reedmedia.net/wiki/Create__44___modify_and_remove_user_accounts.html. Create, modify and remove user accounts 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 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)