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Old 11-29-2007
creating a new profile from command line
Does any1 know how to preform such an operation on a mac?

any help appreciated
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Old 11-29-2007
useradds from command line - The macosxhints Forums

It's not pretty.
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Old 12-03-2007
The macosxhints thread linked to was posted in 2002.
Here is the Pre-Leopard operation in a slightly more readable form.
Kirkville - Creating User Accounts from the Command Line

Which OS X version are you performing the user add on?

ni tools (niutil, nidump,..) are gone from Leopard (10.5).

dscl, dseditgroup, mkdir, cp -R, and chown would seem to be the tools for this under Leopard.
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