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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.infi.net!none From: none@domain.com (Jeremy Williams) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Subject: Re: Why no addusr? Date: Thu, 02 Jan 1997 19:53:55 -0400 Organization: Jeremy's World Lines: 18 Message-ID: <none-ya023480000201971953550001@news.infi.net> References: <none-ya023480001912962244220001@news.infi.net> <mason-ya023380002012960019340001@news.four.net> <none-ya023480002012962112290001@news.infi.net> <x7zpz8wnxt.fsf@dumbcat.codewright.com> <3a13e94547@emw4maba.slip.gp.fht-esslingen.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: pa6dsp2.roanoke.infi.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-No-Archive: Yes X-Newsreader: Yet Another NewsWatcher 2.3.4 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:5053 Markus I think you've got some great ideas. As far as the adduser thing...my suggestion is this: (I'd do it myself, but I have no programming experience at all) 1. Have a directory (maybe /etc/skel) that has a few default files like .login et al 2. Have a file in that directory called .default_config that has info like where the home dir for each user should be created, and a default group & permissions info for new users 3. a simple binary that takes a username as an argument and creates the folder and adds the user to the system, creates the appropreate files and directories, and then executes chpass with the username. Is that reasonable?