From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Apr 24 13:51:38 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cygnus.rush.net (cygnus.rush.net [209.45.245.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BF60915298 for ; Sat, 24 Apr 1999 13:51:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bright@rush.net) Received: from localhost (bright@localhost) by cygnus.rush.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id QAA22751; Sat, 24 Apr 1999 16:08:39 -0500 (EST) Date: Sat, 24 Apr 1999 16:08:37 -0500 (EST) From: Alfred Perlstein To: Jeff Miller Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Im having some problems with freebsd? In-Reply-To: <37220AC5.8D0F7FD1@direct.ca> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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