From owner-freebsd-current Fri Aug 7 12:50:47 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA06997 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:50:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ifi.uio.no (ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA06988 for ; Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:50:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dag-erli@ifi.uio.no) Received: from hrotti.ifi.uio.no (2602@hrotti.ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.15]) by ifi.uio.no (8.8.8/8.8.7/ifi0.2) with ESMTP id VAA18905; Fri, 7 Aug 1998 21:50:14 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from dag-erli@localhost) by hrotti.ifi.uio.no ; Fri, 7 Aug 1998 21:50:13 +0200 (MET DST) Mime-Version: 1.0 To: Wolfram Schneider Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: removing -batch option from adduser command References: <199808071854.UAA20965@campa.panke.de> Organization: University of Oslo, Department of Informatics X-url: http://www.stud.ifi.uio.no/~dag-erli/ X-other-addresses: 'finger dag-erli@ifi.uio.no' for a list X-disclaimer-1: The views expressed in this article are mine alone, and do X-disclaimer-2: not necessarily coincide with those of any organisation or X-disclaimer-3: company with which am or have been affiliated. X-Stop-Spam: http://www.cauce.org/ From: dag-erli@ifi.uio.no (Dag-Erling Coidan =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= ) Date: 07 Aug 1998 21:50:13 +0200 In-Reply-To: Wolfram Schneider's message of "Fri, 7 Aug 1998 20:54:21 +0200 (MET DST)" Message-ID: Lines: 13 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.5/Emacs 19.34 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by hub.freebsd.org id MAA06991 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Wolfram Schneider writes: > I want remove the adduser(8) option `-batch'. Adduser was written as > an *interactive* command for newbies. The pw(8) does now a much better > job for adding users from command line. Also, the -batch option is > not well tested, buggy and unsupported. The crowd breaks out in spontaneous applause. Well, OK, maybe it doesn't, but I do :) DES -- Dag-Erling Smørgrav - dag-erli@ifi.uio.no To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message