From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Sep 29 03:19:58 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id DAA02615 for chat-outgoing; Mon, 29 Sep 1997 03:19:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.cs.tu-berlin.de (root@mail.cs.tu-berlin.de [130.149.17.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id DAA02605 for ; Mon, 29 Sep 1997 03:19:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from panke.panke.de (anonymous214.ppp.cs.tu-berlin.de [130.149.17.214]) by mail.cs.tu-berlin.de (8.8.6/8.8.7) with ESMTP id MAA28751; Mon, 29 Sep 1997 12:13:56 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from wosch@localhost) by panke.panke.de (8.8.5/8.6.12) id LAA00706; Mon, 29 Sep 1997 11:35:13 +0200 (MET DST) To: Annelise Anderson Cc: Sean Eric Fagan , chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Microsoft brainrot (was: r-cmds and DNS and /etc/host.conf) References: From: Wolfram Schneider Date: 29 Sep 1997 11:35:11 +0200 In-Reply-To: Annelise Anderson's message of Sun, 28 Sep 1997 02:15:25 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Lines: 18 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Annelise Anderson writes: > But consider a simpler situation--adduser. One runs adduser and in > its 2.2-STABLE manifestation, it offers (once only) an opportunity > to select defaults. It doesn't say where these defaults are being > stored, or offer the information that this file can be edited later. > It doesn't explain that a valid shell has to be in /etc/shells (would > you like to look at /etc/shells?), even though ksh is offered as an > option, and ksh neither comes with the system nor is it installed > on my computer. Adduser offers ksh only if ksh was installed in /bin, /usr/bin, or /usr/local/bin. Adduser was a hack, not a well designed and documented tool. Until now nobody had the time to rewrite adduser. -- Wolfram Schneider http://www.apfel.de/~wosch/