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Date: Mon, 6 Oct 1997 10:18:16 -0700 (PDT)
From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
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To: Hans Petter Bieker <hanspb@persbraten.vgs.no>
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Subject: Re: classes and adduser
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On Sat, 4 Oct 1997, Hans Petter Bieker wrote:

> Why doesn't the adduser command set the class field in master.passwd?

What version of FreeBSD are you running?  Login classes weren't
implemented until 2.2.2.

> I think adduser should ask for a which class the user should belong to --
> just like it asks for group and username. It should be possible to set a
> default class.

My research shows that adduser does ask for this, in 2.2.2 and later.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major