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Date:      Fri, 19 Mar 1999 13:13:11 -0800 (PST)
From:      Dan Busarow <dan@dpcsys.com>
To:        Joe Schwartz <rjoe@sierrahill.com>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: 3.1 adduser -batch gone?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.990319131012.14342M-100000@java.dpcsys.com>
In-Reply-To: <199903191938.NAA10411@sierrahill.com>

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On Fri, 19 Mar 1999, Joe Schwartz wrote:
> I'm migrating an ISP's NT e-mail server to FreeBSD 3.1. They've
> provided user info including:
>  
> login ID, full name, passwd
>  
> I've set up the script using my FreeBSD 2.8 system to create the
> adduser script which looks like:
>  
> adduser -batch test4 '' '' 'MR. TEST' qwerty7
>  
> Works great on 2.8 and creates a record like this:
>  
> test4:$1$Yk404UY5$vsmNN4Ah1sLVZyHX.NEok1:1024:15::0:0:MR. TEST:/home/test4:/bin/
> csh.
>  
>  
> I tried running he script on the 3.1 machine and got a:
>  
> '-batch no longer supported'    error message.
>  
> I was originally going to use 'pw', but not not understand
> how to use it to set a passwd. Am I overlooking this option?

Looks like I'll be migrating my adduser scripts too :)
This seems to work

# echo qwerty7 | pw useradd test4 -c "MR TEST" -h 0

-h is the magic

Dan
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