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From: Hume Smith <hclsmith@tallships.istar.ca>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc
Subject: Re: Why no addusr?
Date: 14 Feb 1997 17:05:41 GMT
Organization: North End TTA Fans and Reed Organ Repairers
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Reply-To: Hume Smith <hclsmith@tallships.istar.ca>
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In article <5e0sg2$dot@panix2.panix.com> tls@panix.com (Thor Lancelot Simon) writes:
> In article <5dt58u$5ik@news.istar.ca>,
> Hume Smith <hclsmith@tallships.istar.ca> wrote:
> >In article <5dres4$q38@panix2.panix.com> tls@panix.com (Thor Lancelot Simon) writes:
> >
> >> Certainly, I've never found 'vipw' and 'mkdir' hard to use.
> >
> >not difficult, no; just tedious and easily goofed if you add more than three
> >users.
> >
> >i'll agree that a binary is not appropriate; but a script sure would be nice.
>
> Um, if you're adding more than a few users at once, you could *write* such a
> script with almost no effort. If we shipped one, it would probably take more
> effort on your part to customize it than it would for you to write one from
> scratch.
um, i have written one, and IMO this argument for not shipping one is
horsehockey. eg, i *still* have not done all the locking that should
happen, because i haven't figured out whether there's a shipped command for
doing it that isn't interactive; nor do i know exactly how it's done to
do it myself and then hope that it hasn't/doesn't ever change(d).
it's trivial to do a hackdash job of it; doing it *right* isn't.
--
Hume Smith <URL:mailto:hclsmith@tallships.istar.ca>
<URL:http://dess.tallships.istar.ca/%7Ehclsmith/>