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From: roberto@keltia.frmug.fr.net (Ollivier Robert)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: ADD USER utility for BSDI
Date: 19 Aug 1994 14:42:03 +0200
Organization: A Happy FreeBSD 1.1.5 Usenet Site
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References: <Brad-1808941518300001@btmedia.mankato.mn.us>
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In article <Brad-1808941518300001@btmedia.mankato.mn.us>,
Brad Theissen <Brad@BTMedia.Mankato.MN.US> wrote:
> We are using the BSDI product, and are growing weary of the process of
> adding new users (editing pwrd file, making directories, changing
> ownership, etc.). We made a little mistake last night that forced us to
> rebuild the router from scratch!
I have one in PERL called new-account :
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201 [14:39] root@keltia:~# new-account
new-account : Account Creation Program.
Copyright (c) 1993, 94 by Ollivier Robert (roberto@keltia.frmug.fr.net)
Version 1.05 PL 1 on 18/06/94.
Usage:
new-account [options] login fullname group [group...]
Options:
-m send greeting message to new user,
-s shell specifies the shell to use instead of /bin/tcsh,
-u uid specifies une user-id to use (default is next free in class),
-a alias specifies the alias to put in /etc/aliases,
-p pwd use that encrypted password,
-q be quiet and do not display messages.
Configuration file is /usr/local/etc/accountrc.
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It is for 386BSD/FreeBSD but I've tested it under BSDI 1.1 and it works
fine. It supports aliases, directory creation, greeting message to the new
user, automatic generation of the sendmail's userdb database...
--
Ollivier ROBERT roberto@hsc.fr.net
Hervé Schauer Consultants Ollivier.Robert@keltia.frmug.fr.net
PERL / MIME / PGP / 4.4BSD FreeBSD keltia 1.1.5(RELEASE) RELEASE#0 i386