Easy way/script to add another user like me?

[peter]

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> Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2006 12:36:45 -0500
> From: "Joe(theWordy)Philbrook" <jtwdyp at ttlc.net>
> Subject: Re: Easy way/script to add another user like me?
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>    *(I installed breezy from the cd with the expert mode
>      so as to get a little more control over the process,
>      and because I always configure certain applications
>      such as pine, and especially mc to my liking, and put
>      the appropriate .files in /etc/skel before I create
>      the user account's I actually use, I didn't use the
>      installer to set up a 1st user because I most
>      certainly didn't want my initial test user account to
>      be a sudoer...)
> 
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Unless this has changed since Hoary, surley using expert mode sets up a
root user account as part of the install in which case all is as it
would be for a "standard" Linux install?

Peter