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From: rmk@rmkhome.com (Rick Kelly)
Subject: Re: LINUX SUCKS!!!!
Organization: The Man With Ten Cats
Followup-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.386bsd.misc
References: <085334Z20101994@anon.penet.fi> <39lofv$q5f@ucthpx.uct.ac.za> <CywwzF.L6@news.cern.ch> <1994Nov08.143108.154711@ua1ix.ua.edu> <39tc5g$bvp@sidhe.hsc-sec.fr>
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Reply-To: rmk@rmkhome.com (Rick Kelly)
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Date: Wed, 23 Nov 1994 04:29:07 GMT
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Ollivier Robert (roberto@hsc.fr.net) wrote:
: In article <1994Nov08.143108.154711@ua1ix.ua.edu>,
: Thomas K. Otake <totake@furball.eng.ua.edu> wrote:
: > features in AIX that I wish were available in Linux.  One is the ability
: > to increase the size of a file system without having to recreate it, and

: Yeah, it is good but the FS is just too slow to work with...

: > the other is SMIT, an admin interface that let's you do pretty much
: > anything you need to do to administer a system and makes life a lot 
: > easier since you don't have to type in 5 line commands and don't have to
: > wade through fifty manuals to find the one command line argument needed
: > to get something to work.  Is there something similar available for

: SMIT is one of the reasons I hate AIX. In fact I  don't like many of the so
: called user-friendly  interfaces (sysadmsh, sysadm,  sam, smit).  They hide
: too much how the system works (though in case of AIX,  I do not want really
: to know how it  works :-)) without being  that powerful. Ever tried  to add
: 200 accounts on a HP-UX system with SAM ?

1. Run NIS on the HP box.

2. Or just keep new accounts in a text file in passwd format, append it
to /etc/passwd, and then do pwconv.

-- 

Rick Kelly  rmk@rmkhome.com  rmk@bedford.progress.com  rmk@tencats.tiac.net