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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.telstra.net!vic.news.telstra.net!sleipnir.iaccess.com.au!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news.mathworks.com!uunet!in2.uu.net!142.77.1.4!news.uunet.ca!news.on.rogers.wave.ca!n4tor.istar!tor.istar!east.istar!news1.istar.ca!news From: Hume Smith <hclsmith@tallships.istar.ca> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Subject: Re: Why no addusr? Date: 12 Feb 1997 19:22:06 GMT Organization: North End TTA Fans and Reed Organ Repairers Lines: 12 Sender: hclsmith@three-elms.isisnet.com Message-ID: <5dt58u$5ik@news.istar.ca> References: <none-ya023480001912962244220001@news.infi.net> <5dnfrp$gob@panix2.panix.com> <DERAADT.97Feb10191845@zeus.theos.com> <none-ya023480001102971923370001@news.infi.net> <5dres4$q38@panix2.panix.com> Reply-To: Hume Smith <hclsmith@tallships.istar.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: pt028.tallships.istar.ca In-reply-to: tls@panix.com's message of 11 Feb 1997 22:53:40 -0500 return-receipt-to: Hume Smith <hclsmith@tallships.istar.ca> X-Newsreader: Gnus v5.0.15 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:5407 In article <5dres4$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. -- Hume Smith <URL:mailto:hclsmith@tallships.istar.ca> <URL:http://dess.tallships.istar.ca/%7Ehclsmith/>