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 > -- > Department of Electrical Engineering and CERECAM > Unix System Administrator and Unix support > AD E4 BF C8 51 94 B2 06 36 24 6A C1 A3 3A 5D 01 > http://www.eng.uct.ac.za > _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
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