From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jan 3 13:44:19 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id NAA29455 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 3 Jan 1995 13:44:19 -0800 Received: from time.cdrom.com (time.cdrom.com [192.216.223.46]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with ESMTP id NAA29449 for ; Tue, 3 Jan 1995 13:44:18 -0800 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by time.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.9) with SMTP id NAA11725; Tue, 3 Jan 1995 13:38:40 -0800 X-Authentication-Warning: time.cdrom.com: Host localhost didn't use HELO protocol To: roberto@blaise.ibp.fr (Ollivier ROBERT) cc: wosch@cs.tu-berlin.de, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: New adduser script In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 03 Jan 95 15:14:01 +0100." <9501031414.AA11533@blaise.ibp.fr> Date: Tue, 03 Jan 1995 13:38:39 -0800 Message-ID: <11724.789169119@time.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: hackers-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > But it is able to manage sendmail aliases, sendmail userdb entries, finds > uid holes, multiple groups, and so on. I've rewritten the configuration > routine and will add an option to insert /etc/uucp/sys entries for UUCP sites Can it handle sites like freefall, where different groups of people get assigned to the end of some range? (e.g hackers get the next 6xx uid, WC staff get 2xxx, archive maintainers get 1xxx, etc). If so, *I* would sure use it! :-) Creating accounts on freefall now is kind of a pain in the butt. You need to find the next free uid in the 600 range (for 99% of new users, anyway), then create the account, then make a corresponding group id, then create the REAL home dir in /a, then chown it to ., then create a symlink to it in /home. I'll agree that it's probably something of a special case, but it's not a bad model, either. Jordan