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Date:      Fri, 9 Jan 1998 12:57:18 -0800 (PST)
From:      Rudy Gireyev <rgireyev@yahoo.com>
To:        Shaun Courtney <shaun@emma.eng.uct.ac.za>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Adding a user and passwd with "pw" 
Message-ID:  <19980109205718.1177.rocketmail@send1a.yahoomail.com>

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---Shaun Courtney <shaun@emma.eng.uct.ac.za> wrote:
>
> Hi
> 
> I'm running 2.2.5-STABLE and 3.0-CURRENT.
> 
> I'm trying to add users using the pw command. Everything works
except I can't
> add the passwd. 

Any reason for not using adduser or even /stand/sysinstall?

> 
> I've tried:
> echo "passwd" | pw useradd -n test ...... -h 0 
> but it fails. I've edited  a /etc/pw.conf file and set default
passwd to 
> random but then it used this setting rather than the passwd I'm
trying to 
> feed it. 
> 
> Any help would be appeciated.
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Shaun
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