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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!uunet!in3.uu.net!205.252.116.190!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!agate!theos.com!deraadt From: deraadt@theos.com (Theo de Raadt) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Subject: Re: Why no addusr? Date: 09 Feb 1997 01:39:29 GMT Organization: Theo Ports Kernels For Fun And Profit Lines: 61 Message-ID: <DERAADT.97Feb8183929@zeus.theos.com> References: <none-ya023480001912962244220001@news.infi.net> <5aj14j$ri8@abel.ic.sunysb.edu> <5arjo9$foo@cynic.portal.ca> <5as0dq$a0l@keyhole.west.spy.net> <5astvf$hos@cynic.portal.ca> <ed874a5647@emw4maba.slip.gp.fht-esslingen.de> <DERAADT.97Feb2203747@zeus.theos.com> <1f9b795947@emw4maba.slip.gp.fht-esslingen.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: zeus.theos.com In-reply-to: Markus Baeurle's message of Sun, 09 Feb 1997 01:49:57 +0100 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:5324 In article <1f9b795947@emw4maba.slip.gp.fht-esslingen.de> Markus Baeurle <emw4maba@gp.fht-esslingen.de> writes: Hello Theo, greets. > OpenBSD has the FreeBSD adduser command. And it runs on many of those > platforms you list. This has been said before. Oh, I didn't realize that. I tend to take these month long vacations and miss news articles... Well RiscBSD aka NetBSD/arm32 has an adduser command too, so this is not a reason for me to switch. ;-) I hope the installation and configuration stuff made for the arm32 port will be used by all ports in the future because it really makes life easier. Heh. I don't use adduser myself. But the never-ending whining about an adduser commmand has to stop somewhere! ;-) So we imported the FreeBSD version and our mailing list has been rather quiet since. <smirk> As OpenBSD wants to be "NetBSD plus more" OpenBSD is IMHO included implicitly if somebody mentions something NetBSD can do or runs on which applies to my statement too. OpenBSD doesn't `want' to be "NetBSD plus more". Historically, that was just how it was started... remember I was a NetBSD core developer and hence this spin-off was a natural. But that statement isn't intended to indicate this situation came out of a _desire_ to be "NetBSD plus more". By now OpenBSD has evolved into something very different; it seems that evolution is as natural in operating systems as it is anywhere else (like cars!). Of course, don't trust me making that statement, go hold a friendly discussion with an OpenBSD user or download it and decide for yourself.. ;-) Btw, don't you want to update the WWW page which lists what OpenBSD has more than NetBSD? It lists a lot of things which NetBSD also has now. The first few paragraphs on the page you are referring to (http://www.openbsd.org/plus.html) was updated a few weeks back to be more explicit about this relationship. In our early days the page was describing a meager set of evolutionary changes. Noadays you should probably be reading the page as "What we have done since we split from NetBSD". Answer: lots. Like, lots more than just adduser... ;-) ps. I wish we had an arm32 port. But, no maintainer. Bummer. -- This space not left unintentionally unblank. deraadt@theos.com www.OpenBSD.org -- We're fixing security problems so you can sleep at night.