Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 13:45:59 -0800 (PST) From: dannyman@toldme.com To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org Subject: bin/24439: suggested replament for adduser(8) Message-ID: <20010118214559.D9A9768A06@cronic.tellme.com>
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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 >Quarter: >Keywords: >Date-Required: >Class: change-request >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Thu Jan 18 13:50:01 PST 2001 >Closed-Date: >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 >Release-Note: >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted: To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message
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