From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Aug 8 19:05:52 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6315216A41F for ; Mon, 8 Aug 2005 19:05:52 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from bwkahle@binary.net) Received: from eterna.binary.net (eterna.binary.net [216.229.0.25]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 263B343D53 for ; Mon, 8 Aug 2005 19:05:52 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from bwkahle@binary.net) Received: from [10.0.0.69] (xanadu-pub.binary.net [216.229.9.34]) by eterna.binary.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id AD9C1B4423 for ; Mon, 8 Aug 2005 14:05:51 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <42F7AD3F.8020301@binary.net> Date: Mon, 08 Aug 2005 14:06:39 -0500 From: Bryce Kahle User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (X11/20050404) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: pw home directory creation X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 08 Aug 2005 19:05:52 -0000 I recently sent the following to David L. Nugent, who is listed as the author and maintainer of pw, at the email address listed in the pw README within the FreeBSD source tree. I received no response, so I thought I would see if anyone here had any ideas about this. David, I have been using your program pw on FreeBSD for quite awhile now, and I've recently ran into a problem. I have been setting up a NIS network, and I would like to use pw to add new users to the NIS tables as it seems it is very well tailored to do this. The problem I have is that in order to do so I use the -V flag to pw for an alternate configuration directory. I examined the source code and noticed that when you use this flag, that it will absolutely not create home directories. I was wondering if there was a justification behind this decision, and what it might be? I would really like to be able to create home directories when not touching the actual passwd file of a machine. Thanks for your time. -- Bryce Kahle Systems Administrator - Binary Net 1-402-742-7042 http://www.binary.net/