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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!metro!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!news.ececs.uc.edu!news.kei.com!news.mathworks.com!panix!news.panix.com!not-for-mail From: tls@panix.com (Thor Lancelot Simon) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Subject: Re: Why no addusr? Date: 14 Feb 1997 00:16:50 -0500 Organization: Panix Lines: 20 Message-ID: <5e0sg2$dot@panix2.panix.com> References: <none-ya023480001912962244220001@news.infi.net> <none-ya023480001102971923370001@news.infi.net> <5dres4$q38@panix2.panix.com> <5dt58u$5ik@news.istar.ca> Reply-To: tls@rek.tjls.com NNTP-Posting-Host: panix2.panix.com Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:5450 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. -- Thor Lancelot Simon tls@panix.COM Stumbling drunk in the railyard looking for God: http://www.panix.com/~tls/