Date: Sat, 24 Apr 1999 16:08:37 -0500 (EST) From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@rush.net> To: Jeff Miller <millert@direct.ca> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Im having some problems with freebsd? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.990424160659.2095S-100000@cygnus.rush.net> In-Reply-To: <37220AC5.8D0F7FD1@direct.ca>
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On Sat, 24 Apr 1999, Jeff Miller wrote: > > Hello, I used to have freebsd 2.2.6 working perfectly fine. Then I > bought a new server with a > 13gb harddrive. I was forced to upgrade to freebsd 3.1 to support the > harddrive. Then other problems occured. The adduser program now will not > allow command line interface for the passwords. So I checked out the PW > program it require's I have an interactive pipe from a perl > script or shell script. I dont know how to program a interactive pipe so > I need help with that. Also on freebsd 2.2.6 I was able to get the qmail > program to work with my usernames. But that to doesn't work with pop > accounts. Please help me. echo USER'S PASSWORD HERE | pw YOUR ARGUMENTS note, this is unsafe, any user on the system that runs: "ps -ax" at the right time will see your user's password. be advised, and pick up a book on perl or shell programming. -Alfred To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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