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To: Gary Kline <kline@thought.org>
From: jacks@sage-american.com
Subject: Re: pw in script to create new user.
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Joe responded that he made a typo and it should be "pw adduser -D" which
messes up the whole start. If Joe wrote the sequence for the benefit of the
archives, methinks he should do a rewrite because the present one is
misleading.... and will continue to mislead.

At 12:07 PM 1.23.2002 -0800, Gary Kline wrote:
>On Tue, Jan 22, 2002 at 01:43:04PM -0600, jacks@sage-american.com wrote:
>> Joe: I ran #pw -D and no pw.conf was created (4.4-stable)....????
>
>	[[ .. ]]
>> 
>> jacks@sage-american.com
>> 
>
>	Right on the pw -D.  I poked around in the source and pw -D
>	only kicks out the usage:\n and see what the author is trying
>	to do.  
>
>	pw looks for "pw [foo]|[bar] help" to offer help.  From what 
>	I see, it looks like this one needs either a rewrite or retirement.
>
>	Foo:)
>
>	gary
>
>
>-- 
>   Gary Kline     kline@thought.org   www.thought.org     Public service Unix
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Best regards,
Jack L. Stone,
Server Admin

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