Stupid useradd question

[paladin256]

How do I add a description to the username when I create the account?
Right now I do useradd -m to get the following:
gwynn:x:1132:1::/home/gwynn:/bin/false.
What I would like to do is have the following included in : gwynn:x:1132:1:Gwynn Dail up Account for remote access:/home/gwynn:/bin/false so I can keep track of what the accounts are used for.
How do I add the comments in when I create the account?

 

[bi]

The -c option allows you to add a comment to the user account. You can also use -c to add a comment to an account when you use the usermod command.

Or you could carefully edit the /etc/passwd file to add a comment.

 

[paladin256]

How do I use the -c option. I tried useradd -m test1 -c test account, but that did not work. I also tried varients of that -mc -m -c etc. Could you provide an example?

 

[bi]

It isn't as easy as the man page made it appear to be. I've been trying to get it to work ever since I posted my original answer!

Here is an example:

useradd -u 275 -g dba -G staff -m -s /bin/ksh -c "testing 2" testy2

This adds a user with a uid of 275, primary group of dba, secondary group of staff. The -m says to make the home directory in the default path (usually /export/home), -s specifies the shell for the user. The -c you can see has to have quotes around it if there are any spaces in the comment, and finally, the login name.

 

[paladin256]

Thanks. My mistake was I was trying to do user first.