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From: j@ida.interface-business.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc
Subject: Re: Why no addusr?
Date: 6 Jan 1997 11:33:42 GMT
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none@domain.com (Jeremy Williams) wrote:

> 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)

Just as a hint: David Nugent recently contributed something called
pw(8) for this kind of problems.  He contributed it to the FreeBSD
tree, but there's IMHO no good reason for reinwenting wheels.  He has
featured it after some SunOS command IIRC.  It's not intended as a
user interface, just as a backend.  But it should be fairly easy to
wrap the user interface of your choice around it (or even use it
`pure').  Have a look at it!

-- 
J"org Wunsch					       Unix support engineer
joerg_wunsch@interface-business.de       http://www.interface-business.de/~j