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Date:      Mon, 18 Jan 1999 00:31:10 -0500 (EST)
From:      "Crist J. Clark" <cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com>
To:        mark@knm.org (Mark Lehrer)
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: /usr/bin/passwd question
Message-ID:  <199901180531.AAA11288@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com>
In-Reply-To: <199901170125.UAA07905@home.knm.org> from Mark Lehrer at "Jan 16, 99 08:25:40 pm"

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Mark Lehrer wrote,

> I am trying to write a CGI script to add users.  What is the best way
> to accomplish this?  I notice that the standard passwd utility will
> not read from stdin.  Is there an easy way to do this from perl?

Do not use 'passwd.'

man pw

HTH.
-- 
Crist J. Clark                           cjclark@home.com

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