From owner-freebsd-questions Fri May 8 09:43:05 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA19277 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 8 May 1998 09:43:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from sawmill.grauel.com (sawmill.grauel.com [199.233.104.39]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA19233 for ; Fri, 8 May 1998 09:42:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rjk@sawmill.grauel.com) Received: (from rjk@localhost) by sawmill.grauel.com (8.8.8/8.8.7) id LAA26086; Fri, 8 May 1998 11:44:05 -0500 (EST) From: "Richard J. Kuhns" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <13651.13909.289457.848199@sawmill.grauel.com> Date: Fri, 8 May 1998 11:44:05 -0500 (EST) To: Slyce Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: C/Base Question.... In-Reply-To: <3551E385.BDF1EC60@onramp.net> References: <3551E385.BDF1EC60@onramp.net> X-Mailer: VM 6.47 under 20.4 "Emerald" XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Slyce writes: > Has anyone had experience with using C/Base 4GL??? Was wondering if it > would be useful to design a database to add/delete/update passwd file > for user network access... basically to add new users to a local isp > from remote locations, rhather than using the standard adduser script??? > I'm not sure I understand exactly what you want to do. If you're wanting to use C/Base to maintain the system password files, I'm afraid you're SOL. C/Base 4GL works reasonably well with it's own data files, but that's about it. If you want to work with any non-C/Base files, you have to write your own code in C (or TCL) to do it. Hope this helps... - Rich -- Richard Kuhns rjk@grauel.com PO Box 6249 Tel: (765)477-6000 \ 100 Sawmill Road x319 Lafayette, IN 47903 (800)489-4891 / To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message