From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jan 6 23:55:32 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id XAA04726 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 6 Jan 1997 23:55:32 -0800 (PST) Received: from marvin.mmedia.com (root@marvin.mmedia.com [199.240.226.118]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id XAA04721 for ; Mon, 6 Jan 1997 23:55:27 -0800 (PST) Received: (from joed@localhost) by marvin.mmedia.com (8.8.4/8.8.2) id BAA12359; Tue, 7 Jan 1997 01:55:13 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: Date: Tue, 7 Jan 1997 01:55:12 -0600 From: joed@ksu.edu (Joe Diehl) To: tom@sdf.com (Tom Samplonius) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: adduser script References: X-Mailer: Mutt 0.55 Mime-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: ; from Tom Samplonius on Jan 6, 1997 23:12:40 -0800 Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Tom Samplonius writes: > > On Tue, 7 Jan 1997, Joe Diehl wrote: > > > Greetings, > > > > Many moons ago there was discussion on -hackers about the perl adduser > > script and what to do with it. What every happened with that discussion, > > and/or is there any perl work that needs to be done on it? > > Perhaps you're not aware that an adduser script has been part of FreeBSD > since release 2.1.5 (maybe even 2.1?). > Yes, the script has existed at least since 2.0.5-ALPHA (which is the first version that could handle LBA translations)... I believe the conversation consisted more of the lines that the script needing modifying in some way, but the general perl knowledge pool was relatively thin. I'm not sure, it's been a while since that conversation took place and my memory is fairly hazy. --- Joe Diehl KSU Dept. of Telecommunications