Date: Tue, 16 Jan 1996 20:17:04 +0100 (MET) From: Ollivier Robert <roberto@keltia.freenix.fr> To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Cc: robin@is.co.za, hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: user management stuff Message-ID: <199601161917.UAA16739@keltia.freenix.fr> In-Reply-To: <9056.821794947@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Jan 16, 96 04:22:27 am
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It seems that Jordan K. Hubbard said:
> Actually, I'm rather hoping that someone will re-write adduser so
> we can throw the one we have away! I've had no end of problems with
> that bloody perl script! :-(
I have another one but I haven't got time to document it yet. It is not
difficult to use, just two configuration file (that's what I need to write
man pages for). If there is enough interest for put it in the tree, I'll
try to write them...
I haven't implemented the -freefall option (creating a group per user) :-)
A volunteer to write the two manpages ?
new-account : Account Creation Program.
Copyright (c) 1993, 94 by Ollivier Robert (roberto@keltia.frmug.fr.net)
Version 1.06.3 on 18/04/95.
Usage:
new-account [options] login fullname group [group...]
Options:
-N doesn't execute anything, just show commands,
-m send greeting message to new user,
-s shell specifies the shell to use instead of /sbin/tcsh,
-u uid specifies une user-id to use (default is next free in class),
-a alias specifies the alias to put in /etc/mail/aliases,
-p pwd use that encrypted password,
-q be quiet and do not display messages.
Configuration file is /usr/local/etc/accountrc.
Group definition file is /usr/local/etc/groupdefs.
The groupdefs looks like this:
# config file for new-account(8)
#
# Defines the different groups available
#
# (c) 1993,94 by Ollivier Robert (roberto@keltia.frmug.fr.net)
#
# $Id$
#
# Here lie the group descriptions
#
# format is :
#
# group_name = ( uid_min-uid_max base_dir def_shell options )
#
staff = ( 100-199 /users/staff /sbin/tcsh mail,alias,userdb )
copains = ( 200-499 /users/copains /sbin/tcsh mail,alias,userdb )
uucp = ( 500-599 /var/spool/uucp /usr/libexec/uucp/uucico nodir )
slip = ( 600-699 / /usr/sbin/sliplogin nodir )
ppp = ( 700-799 / /usr/local/sbin/ppplogin nodir )
--
Ollivier ROBERT -=- The daemon is FREE! -=- roberto@keltia.frmug.fr.net
FreeBSD keltia.freenix.fr 2.2-CURRENT #1: Wed Jan 10 02:23:42 MET 1996
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