Date: Sat, 22 May 1999 19:07:02 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> To: Andy <andylau@163.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Please Help! Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.03.9905221904570.15248-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <001001bea462$686b10f0$0200000a@studiodlp01>
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On Sat, 22 May 1999, Andy wrote: > I am a newer to Freebsd,I use the Freebsd2.2.5 two weeks ago, I > found the command "adduser" can create user in batch mode(adduser > -batch ...), Now ,I got the Freebsd 3.0,I found the "adduser" does not > support the option "-batch" any more,system tell me to use the > "pw",but I can not understant it , In "pw useradd",it use the option > "-h fd" to input password,I don't know what it the "fd".How can I > adduser in batch mode use the command "pw" in Freebsd3.0? thank you! The -h option allows you to specify a file descriptor to read from instead of standard input for the password. For most uses, you will not need this option. Simply write the desired password down stdout (such as a pipe) and pw will add it in. The -h is useful if you're fork() and exec()ing pw, and have set a file descriptor to not close-on-exit. You can specify this descriptor to pw, then write it from the parent. If this makes no sense don't worry about it. :) Doug White Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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