Date: Sun, 1 Dec 2002 02:42:19 -0600 From: "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@over-yonder.net> To: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> Cc: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>, NAKAJI Hiroyuki <nakaji@tutrp.tut.ac.jp>, "David W. Chapman Jr." <dwcjr@inethouston.net>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: pw_user.c change for samba Message-ID: <20021201084219.GA8702@over-yonder.net> In-Reply-To: <p05200f20ba0f29b79f1c@[128.113.24.47]> References: <86isyimurd.fsf@xa12.heimat.gr.jp> <005501c29670$d5fd8360$fe01a8c0@dwcjr> <86fztmmu5u.fsf@xa12.heimat.gr.jp> <3DE58847.5F962036@mindspring.com> <p05200f20ba0f29b79f1c@[128.113.24.47]>
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On Sat, Nov 30, 2002 at 10:24:58PM -0500 I heard the voice of
Garance A Drosihn, and lo! it spake thus:
>
> However, that doesn't answer the question of which 'adduser' is
> actually expected to be used in 5.0-current. Does someone have
> the shell-script (non-perl) version of adduser? Is it named
> something else, perhaps?
>
> Or are we going to ship 5.0-release with an 'adduser' that does
> require perl, even though perl is not in the base system?
I've had, among my stalled ideas, an intent to rewrite {add,rm}user in C
backending into pw(8) for all the dirty work. Of course, that's waiting
for me to complete my porcine aviation instruction.
--
Matthew Fuller (MF4839) | fullermd@over-yonder.net
Systems/Network Administrator | http://www.over-yonder.net/~fullermd/
"The only reason I'm burning my candle at both ends, is because I
haven't figured out how to light the middle yet"
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