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RandomInsano
Asked: 2011-03-04 14:22:19 +0800 CST

Creating users on OSX 10.5 and up from the command line

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Is this even possible anymore? I've seen tutorials which use niutil (not available on my Mac) and dscl.

My output from dscl is the following though, kind of odd:

neutron:~ username$ sudo dscl / -create /Users/deadline
Data source (/) is not valid.
mac-osx user-management terminal

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  1. Best Answer

    / isn't a valid node name (think network host names); for the local host's default store you can use ., or use localhost to specify the store.

    $ sudo dscl . -create /Users/deadline                       # the common way
$ sudo dscl localhost -create /Local/Default/Users/deadline # same thing
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