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From: "Tim McCullagh" <timbo@halenet.com.au>
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Subject: Creating a pw.conf file
Date: Sun, 3 Dec 2000 12:47:29 +1000
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Hi

Can anyone tell me either how to create a pw.conf file  or where to find the
documentation that would.   I have man ed pw and pw.conf and I seem to be
missing something.

What I am trying to do is use the following comand within a perl script to
add a user.

"/usr/sbin/pw useradd -d $dir -m -s $shell -u $uid -n $username",
("echo $password | /usr/sbin/pw usermod $username -h fd")

It adds the user but will not insert the password    bur rather inserts a *
instead

The pw command works, but I have no pw.conf file.  Can anyone tell me where
it would be reading its defaults from.

thanks

Tim




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