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) 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.