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Subject: bin/24439: suggested replament for adduser(8)
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>Number:         24439
>Category:       bin
>Synopsis:       suggested replament for adduser(8)
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          open
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>Keywords:       
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>Class:          change-request
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Thu Jan 18 13:50:01 PST 2001
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>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     
>Release:        FreeBSD 4.1.1-RELEASE i386
>Organization:
>Environment:

	

>Description:

Useradd is old, and does a decent job, but it pre-dates pw, which means it
edits /etc/master.passwd and runs pwd_mkdb by hand.  It is scarey to hack on
for these reasons.

It is also not maintained.

In August, 1999 I submitted a script I had written to replace adduser, called
enteruser, to Daemon News.  An article talking about the rational for the
script, how it works, and how it can be hacked on, can be found at
http://www.daemonnews.org/199908/enteruser.html

Occasionally I get e-mail from people asking about the "latest version" of
Enteruser ... but it kinda like adduser, it does my bidding already, so what's
this latest version stuff?

Anyway, if you guys wanted to replace adduser, I would be happy to maintain
it, by addressing bugs and feature requests.  EnterUser is implicitly licensed
under BSD terms anyway.  You are more than welcome to it.

>How-To-Repeat:

	

>Fix:

A copy of the article can be found at:

http://dell.dannyland.org/~dannyman/stuff/enteruser/

The script itself:

http://dell.dannyland.org/~dannyman/stuff/enteruser/enteruser

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