Creating a local user through Terminals

[ferko86]

When i create a local admin user on OSX , i get everything OK , BUT i cant make any changes on the System Preferences , cant change TrackPad settings , cant change NADA .
It looks good when i check the users permissions .

the user that got this problem have the name "userbad" .
when I look at /Users/userbad/Library/Preferences there is nothing but only one file (.plist)

when i look at "usergood"
/Users/usergood/Library/Preferences there are tons of .plist files .
inside usergood account I can adjust/change as normally inside the systempreferences icon.

I assume that it have to do with some inheritance-issue while creating the new account , or am I wrong ?

Anybody that can figure it out ?

The commands i used when creating the username :

dscl . create /Users/userbad
dscl . create /Users/userbad RealName "userbad1"
dscl . passwd /Users/userbad kotte
dscl . create /Users/userbad UniqueID "590"
dscl . create /Users/userbad PrimaryGroupID 20
sudo cp -R /System/Library/User\ Template/English.lproj /Users/userbad
dscl . create /Users/userbad UserShell /bin/bash
chown -R userbad:staff /Users/userbad
sudo dseditgroup -o edit -a userbad -t user admin
sudo dseditgroup -o edit -a userbad -t user wheel

 

[KALLT]

You haven’t assigned the user directory.

NFSHomeDirectory: /Users/userbad

Don’t add the user to the wheel group. On macOS, that group is reserved for root. You should also add it to the ‘staff’ group.

 

[ferko86]

You haven’t assigned the user directory.

NFSHomeDirectory: /Users/userbad

Don’t add the user to the wheel group. On macOS, that group is reserved for root. You should also add it to the ‘staff’ group.

Hi KALLT , thanks for the reply .

I cant get this script working when working with variables . But i i will try it .
I'll come back tp you owith results.

 

[ferko86]

Hi KALLT ,

this is the scrip im trying to use ,

#!/bin/sh
USERNAME=name1
FULLNAME=name1namn
PASSWORD=”name1123”
GROUPS=”staff”

# Find out the next available user ID
MAXID=$(dscldscl . -list /Users UniqueID | awk '{print $2}' | sort -ug | tail -1)
USERID=$((MAXID+1))
echo ”$USERID”


# Create the user account
dscl . -create /Users/$USERNAME
dscl . -create /Users/$USERNAME UserShell /bin/bash
dscl . -create /Users/$USERNAME RealName "$FULLNAME"
dscl . -passwd /Users/$USERNAME $PASSWORD
dscl . -create /Users/$USERNAME UniqueID "$USERID"
dscl . -create /Users/$USERNAME PrimaryGroupID 20
dscl . -create /Users/$USERNAME NFSHomeDirectory /Local/Users/$USERNAME
sudo dseditgroup -o edit -a $USERNAME -t user admin

# Create User HomeFolder using OS X’s own template
sudo cp -R /System/Library/User\ Template/English.lproj /Users/$USERNAME

# Change owner of the home folder to our new user
chown -R $USERNAME:staff /Users/$USERNAME

# Set permissions so that only our user(the owner) can access the folder
chmod -R 600 /Users/$USERNAME

# Output message
echo "Created user #$USERID: $USERNAME ($FULLNAME)"
printf ”dscacheutil -q user | grep -A 3 -B 2 -e uid:\ 5’[0-9][0-9]’”

#Output results to a file
system_profiler >> /Users/name1/Desktop/report.txt

whenever i Run the script , the new user account's full name appear as blank in the login user list.

 

[KALLT]

Have you rebooted?

 

[ferko86]

Have you rebooted?

Hi KALLT , i have rebooted several times.
for the moment i've been given up . i'll see if I can continue with the scripting....