Or perhaps:

echo newuser USER-NAME  >>/srv/cwfs.cmd

replace USER-NAME with the new user's name.  If most commands are in
lowercase, it might make sense to use uppercase names as things that need
to be specified.


On Mon, Dec 23, 2013 at 12:00 PM, Blake McBride <blake@mcbride.name> wrote:

> It works now.  The docs were unclear to me.  For example, this works:
>
> echo newuser george >>/srv/cwfs.cmd
>
> And this does not work (unsupprisingly):
>
> echo george george >>/srv/cwfs.cmd
>
> Unless you really look at it, it is unclear when to make a substitution
> (or fill in a variable), and when to type it literally.  Perhaps the docs
> should say:
>
> echo newuser <username>  >>/srv/cwfs.cmd
>
> where <username> is the name of the new user (without the <>).
>
> Thanks.
>
> Blake
>
>
>
> On Mon, Dec 23, 2013 at 9:32 AM, Bence Fábián <begnoc@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Did you append or truncate. That command should work.
>>
>>
>> 2013/12/23 Blake McBride <blake@mcbride.name>
>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Sun, Dec 22, 2013 at 11:19 PM, Sergey Zhilkin <szhilkin@gmail.com>wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hello !
>>>> From - https://code.google.com/p/plan9front/wiki/admin
>>>> Adding Users
>>>>
>>>> Add a new user on the file server:
>>>>
>>>> echo newuser username >>/srv/cwfs.cmd
>>>>
>>>> The newuser filesystem command is described in the fs(8)<http://man.aiju.de/8/fs>
>>>>  manpage. Examine the '/adm/users' file to investigate the results.
>>>>
>>>
>>> The above echo command did nothing to the /adm/users file for me on
>>> vanilla 9front.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>