1.2. Adding users using the command line

Procedure

1. Open terminal and connect to the IdM server.

2. Add user login, user’s first name, last name and optionally, you can also add their email address.

   $ ipa user-add user_login --first=first_name --last=last_name --email=email_address

   IdM supports user names that can be described by the following regular expression:

   [a-zA-Z0-9_.][a-zA-Z0-9_.-]{0,252}[a-zA-Z0-9_.$-]?

   注意

   User names ending with the trailing dollar sign ($) are supported to enable Samba 3.x machine support.

   If you add a user name containing uppercase characters, IdM automatically converts the name to lowercase when saving it. Therefore, IdM always requires to enter user names in lowercase when logging in. Additionally, it is not possible to add user names which differ only in letter casing, such as user and User.

   The default maximum length for user names is 32 characters. To change it, use the ipa config-mod --maxusername command. For example, to increase the maximum user name length to 64 characters:

   $ ipa config-mod --maxusername=64
    Maximum username length: 64
    ...

   The ipa user-add command includes a lot of parameters. To list them all, use the ipa help command:

   $ ipa help user-add

   For details about ipa help command, see What is the IPA help.

Verification

1. List all IdM user accounts:

   $ ipa user-find