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Date:      Tue, 02 Nov 1999 10:37:32 -0500
From:      John <papalia@UDel.Edu>
To:        Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Addgroup / rmgroup 
Message-ID:  <4.1.19991102103611.009b7c80@mail.udel.edu>
In-Reply-To: <3753.941533143@axl.noc.iafrica.com>
References:  <Your message of "Mon, 01 Nov 1999 23:55:36 EST."             <4.1.19991101234517.0094ddd0@mail.udel.edu>

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Sounds good. I just wanted to make sure before i hunkered down and started
learning man 1 pw =)  You mentioned the commit message - where are those
typically seen?

Thanks!!!
--John

>> Is there now A Better Way to do add/remove/modify groups?  Is that the
>> concept behind pw (8)?
>
>Yes. This is the commit message associated with the removal of the
>addgroup and rmgroup commands:
>
>| revision 1.5
>| date: 1997/07/05 19:12:44;  author: pst;  state: dead;  lines: +1 -1
>| Remove addgroup/rmgroup -- they are completely replaced by pw(1).
>| 
>| Adduser/rmuser stay for now until we get a good user-friendly front-end
>| for pw.
>
>Ciao,
>Sheldon.



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