From owner-freebsd-questions Fri May 8 10:20:19 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA26286 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 8 May 1998 10:20:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from bozeman.onramp.net (bozeman.onramp.net [199.1.11.26]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA26242 for ; Fri, 8 May 1998 10:20:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from slyce@onramp.net) Received: from mailhost.onramp.net (mailhost.onramp.net [199.1.11.3]) by bozeman.onramp.net (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id MAA20676; Fri, 8 May 1998 12:19:04 -0500 (CDT) Received: from onramp.net (ppp14-31.dllstx.onramp.net [206.50.201.31]) by mailhost.onramp.net (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id MAA05263; Fri, 8 May 1998 12:20:06 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <3552F86F.DB88F840@onramp.net> Date: Fri, 08 May 1998 07:19:59 -0500 From: Scott Graves X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.05 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.5-RELEASE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Richard J. Kuhns" CC: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: C/Base Question.... References: <3551E385.BDF1EC60@onramp.net> <13651.13909.289457.848199@sawmill.grauel.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Richard J. Kuhns wrote: > 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. > Basically, I need a centralized database which can be accessed via telnet, to create/delete/modify user accounts on a mini-isp... I'll be setting up a FreeBSD box as an internet gateway and will need to easily add users, web space, email, quotas, etc. all with one script... adduser just isn't powerful enough... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message