Subject: Re: No 'adduser'?
To: Chris Jones <cjones@rupert.oscs.montana.edu>
From: Tom T. Thai <tomthai@future.net>
List: current-users
Date: 12/08/1995 03:55:52
There is a script for adduser on FreeBSD.
On Thu, 7 Dec 1995, Chris Jones
wrote:
> > I just got BSD1.1 from eskimo.com, but it seems an odd omission was made.
> > 'adduser' is missing. Have I been hanging out with Linux folks too long,
> > or should this be there? Where do I get it?
>
> I cobbled together an adduser script a while ago that does everything
> I need on my own system; it can be found at
> ftp://rupert.oscs.montan.edu/pub/NetBSD/adduser/adduser-1.1.
>
> I wouldn't recommend using version 1.0, since it could conceivable
> leave your system without a /etc/passwd file in case of an inopportune
> system crash.
>
> This script isn't as functional or robust as it really should be; it
> ought to do more password file locking, and it ought to accept more
> command-line arguments. If there's sufficient interest, I'll work on
> it some more. So far, though, I've only gotten one response on it.
>
> Chris
>
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