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From: paul@xciv.org (Paul Civati)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc
Subject: Re: Why no addusr?
Date: 9 Jan 1997 00:09:39 GMT
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In article <5aqnum$maq@innocence.interface-business.de>,
j@ida.interface-business.de (J Wunsch) writes:
>> 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
Continuing along the not reinwenting wheels front, FreeBSD has an adduser,
I've not looked at the code but I presume it wouldn't be too difficult
to port it..
-Paul-
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