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From: none@domain.com (Jeremy Williams)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc
Subject: Re: Why no addusr?
Date: Fri, 20 Dec 1996 21:12:29 -0400
Organization: Jeremy's World
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I saw the scripts, which I am now using but the question is why?  It just
doesn't make sense to me to have such a great OS and not have a better way
to do this junk.  I use a tool called smitty on AIX and it's easy to list,
modify, and generaly manage groups and users.  Even on other more generic
systems there IS at least a simple adduser function.  I guess I'm just a
little too picky.