From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Dec 29 12:50:45 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1941A37B408 for ; Sun, 29 Dec 2002 12:50:44 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail1.sea.registeredsite.com (mail1.sea.registeredsite.com [66.111.73.201]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4FD2C43ED1 for ; Sun, 29 Dec 2002 12:50:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from admin@asarian-host.net) Received: from asarian-host.net (asarian-host.net [216.122.74.112]) by mail1.sea.registeredsite.com (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id gBTKoVAu007776 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=NO) for ; Sun, 29 Dec 2002 15:50:32 -0500 Comments: To protect the identity of the sender, certain header fields are either not shown, or masked. Anonymous email addresses for asarians can be requested by filling in the appropriate form at: https://asarian-host.net/cgi-bin/signup.cgi Received: (from root@localhost) by asarian-host.net (8.11.6/8.11.0) id gBTKoUR38988 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sun, 29 Dec 2002 21:50:30 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from admin@asarian-host.net) Posted-Date: Sun, 29 Dec 2002 21:50:30 +0100 (CET) From: Mark Message-Id: <200212292050.GBTKOTK38979@asarian-host.net> Date: Sun, 29 Dec 2002 21:50:24 +0100 X-Authenticated-Sender: admin@asarian-host.net Subject: Re: adduser X-Trace: rXuhMkqg6jqZD8F4UJ2i95C/QIA1QxZGyaTwJ3xAg8ieET6F1pt1QTAtnUSqIE/Q X-Complaints-To: abuse@asarian-host.net X-Abuse-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-Info: Otherwise we are unable to process your complaint Organization: Asarian-host To: "FreeBSD Questions" References: <20021229185302.GA291@raggedclown.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 X-Auth: Asarian-host PGP signature iQEVAwUAPg9gFjFqW1BleBN9AQGG3wf/Z3zTQdCLSN3Tk/1M5vnhO1J1HiGqpDte IulMw0lwRhf1Ns2D+j69Ah0XNM8L16KElH+L57ndQT9rfwKBSs5vG5Vtuwzs/GiD 1pAskkl17EYCJDlN3l2NV+TiIDroO5+JfZpHroJzZxFWSIdiAj8VFFrwiVh6urUd tzrXESCYBlVevyA0VfnkGnpK59nNY/M0nrCowHzdhfgBdONKuVcyfMitd3joL3hO YmAQYljgv0iw8J2ET0DZOepFCYBaWiMRCWVW8SzswMWtHJOUxH/45jeoHmS9Y2t/ erHfF+o9oU/ymyHFc3/++cuXVL3eSPac2mXdkRS8YewCNgxp8zFp+g== =XySE Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG ----- Original Message ----- From: "Cliff Sarginson" To: "FreeBSD Questions" Sent: Sunday, December 29, 2002 7:53 PM Subject: adduser > adduser is broken. Hardly. :) Though I tend to use a wee Perl script of my own, built around /usr/sbin/pw, adduser is not broken. Usually -- and I learnt this the hard way myself -- with a thing this basic, your best bet is to assume the error with yourself, and not with the command at hand. - Mark To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message