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        Dima Ruban <dima@FreeBSD.org>
Subject: Re: Adduser program in C 
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Date: Sat, 25 May 1996 22:54:55 -0700
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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
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Yo, everybody! :-)

I don't really care _what_ language it's written in just so long as:

1. It supports a reasonable number of options and home directory
   organization schemes.  For a synopsis of my views on this, search
   the mailing list archives for "adduser" - I actually spec'd this out
   awhile back in a mail message to this list.

2. Be designed to be callable by front-ends written in anything from Tk
   to C.  By "callable" I simply mean that adduser(1) should be drivable
   completely by command-line arguments, only prompting the user for
   information when it has not been provided thusly.

3. That language be a standard part of the system so we don't need to
   bring in something like prolog just to get adduser to compile. :-)

					Jordan