(macOS) Create a new user worklet

Forum|Forum|6 years ago
September 20, 2019
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cfrieberg
Novice

I'm exploring a custom worklet to create a new user.

So far this has been successful creating the user.

However when trying to login, the password does not work.

Please help if you think of a way around this.

#!/bin/bash
sudo ddcl . -create /Users/automox
sudo dscl . -create /Users/automox UserShell /bin/bash
sudo dscl . -create /Users/automox RealName Automox
sudo dscl . -create /Users/automox UniqueID 9999
sudo dscl . -create /Users/automox NFSHomeDirectory /Local/Users/automox
sudo dscl . -passwd /Users/automox password123
sudo dscl . -append /Groups/admin GroupMembership automox

ps - Don’t use password123… I’m sure that goes without saying 🙂 Also there’s better ways to make users, but we’re trying to conjure this up for a specific use case.

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TimL-Automox
Automox Employee
Forum|Forum|6 years ago
September 20, 2019

great work here cfrieberg, dscl is indeed the preferred method for creating user accounts on macOS. One limitation of that tools is that it does not create a user’s home folder. Based on the last line it seems like you want this account to have admin rights, so I fixed that below as well.

#!/bin/bash

user_short_name="automox"
user_long_name="Automox"
user_password="Password123"
user_unique_id="9999"

dscl . -create /Users/"$user_short_name"
dscl . -create /Users/"$user_short_name" UserShell /bin/bash
dscl . -create /Users/"$user_short_name" RealName "$user_long_name"
dscl . -create /Users/"$user_short_name" UniqueID "$user_unique_id"
dscl . -create /Users/"$user_short_name" NFSHomeDirectory /Users/"$user_short_name"
dscl . -passwd /Users/"$user_short_name" "$user_password"
dscl . -create /Users/"$user_short_name" PrimaryGroupID 20 #for an admin user, use 80 for a standard user
cp -R /System/Library/User\ Template/English.lproj /Users/"$user_short_name"
chown -R "$user_short_name":admin /Users/"$user_short_name"