From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jun 10 20:13:12 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id UAA15752 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 10 Jun 1996 20:13:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ucthpx.uct.ac.za (ucthpx.uct.ac.za [137.158.128.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id UAA15740 for ; Mon, 10 Jun 1996 20:13:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: by ucthpx.uct.ac.za (Smail3.1.29.1 #41) id m0uTJt8-000vZoC; Tue, 11 Jun 96 05:13 SAST Received: from leftside by leftside.its.uct.ac.za with smtp (Smail3.1.29.1 #1) id m0uTCVm-000054C; Mon, 10 Jun 96 21:20 SAT Date: Mon, 10 Jun 1996 21:20:25 +0200 (SAT) From: Peter van Heusden X-Sender: pvh@leftside To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Adduser program in C In-Reply-To: <9660.832995609@time.cdrom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, 24 May 1996, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > The dialog library is a bogus layer for abstracting this type of thing. > > > > You want a command line tool that can be used by a generic UI using > > a dialog library or a GUI making Motif calls, etc., to avoid code > > duplication. > > Sure, but for now I'd be happy to see a more functional adduser > replacement - so far, none of the efforts which have set out > to do this have born any fruit. :( > Hm. What is on the wish list? As a fairly hardened perl hacker, I might find some time to Help Save the World here. Peter