From owner-freebsd-current Sun Dec 1 0:42:44 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 48ADF37B401 for ; Sun, 1 Dec 2002 00:42:43 -0800 (PST) Received: from hardtime.linuxman.net (hardtime.linuxman.net [66.147.26.65]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2D43F43EAF for ; Sun, 1 Dec 2002 00:42:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from fullermd@over-yonder.net) Received: from mortis.over-yonder.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hardtime.linuxman.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id gB19xD812674; Sun, 1 Dec 2002 03:59:14 -0600 Received: by mortis.over-yonder.net (Postfix, from userid 100) id 19D821F33; Sun, 1 Dec 2002 02:42:20 -0600 (CST) Date: Sun, 1 Dec 2002 02:42:19 -0600 From: "Matthew D. Fuller" To: Garance A Drosihn Cc: Terry Lambert , NAKAJI Hiroyuki , "David W. Chapman Jr." , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: pw_user.c change for samba Message-ID: <20021201084219.GA8702@over-yonder.net> References: <86isyimurd.fsf@xa12.heimat.gr.jp> <005501c29670$d5fd8360$fe01a8c0@dwcjr> <86fztmmu5u.fsf@xa12.heimat.gr.jp> <3DE58847.5F962036@mindspring.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i-fullermd.1 X-Editor: vi X-OS: FreeBSD Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message