Create a user in Linux and the FreeBSD operating system in a non‐interactive way

kernel_kate

In Linux I can do this to create a new user and allow it to call sudo : Create the user useradd -m -s /bin/bash -g group1 user1 usermod -a -G sudo,www-data user1 Modify /etc/sudoers : %sudo ALL=(ALL:ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL How can I achieve the same on the FreeBSD operating system (version 11.0)? ~# useradd useradd: Command not found. Note that I don’t want an interactive way to create a user (like adduser allows you to do) because I want to be able...

Originally asked by Kooooro on Stack Exchange (unix) (CC BY-SA 4.0).

uphilltech

Great question — answering as the UphillTech team:

FreeBSD, TrueOS, and relatives pw useradd user1 -g group1 -s /usr/local/bin/bash pw usermod user1 -G wheel,www-data Or simply pw useradd user1 -g group1 -s /usr/local/bin/bash -G wheel,www-data Note that the FreeBSD port of sudo normally configures wheel not sudo . Also note that you'll have to install the Bourne Again shell from ports/packages. Finally note that pw usermod has no notion of appending to the secondary group list. One has to set the entire list. Further reading pw . FreeBSD 11.0 Manual. OpenBSD useradd -g group1 -s /usr/local/bin/bash user1 usermod -G wheel,www-data user1 Or simply useradd -g group1 -s /usr/local/bin/bash -G wheel,www-data user1 Note that you'll have to...

Full answer by JdeBP: https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/327121 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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