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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!insync!news.maxwell.syr.edu!europa.clark.net!news.mathworks.com!news.sprintlink.net!news-peer.sprintlink.net!news-pull.sprintlink.net!news.sprintlink.net!news-stk-11.sprintlink.net!neonramp.com!cynjut.neonramp.com!cynjut.neonramp.com!not-for-mail From: burgess@cynjut.neonramp.com (Dave Burgess) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Subject: Re: Why no addusr? Date: 2 Mar 1997 13:41:15 -0600 Organization: Configuration Management Svcs, Inc. Lines: 21 Message-ID: <5fcl4r$44o$1@cynjut.neonramp.com> References: <none-ya023480001912962244220001@news.infi.net> <none-ya023480001102971923370001@news.infi.net> <5dres4$q38@panix2.panix.com> <5dt58u$5ik@news.istar.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: cynjut.neonramp.com Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:5549 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. > There are several on http://cynjut.neonramp.com/ in the System Administrator's Tools page. -- Dave Burgess (The man of a thousand E-Mail addresses) *bsd FAQ Maintainer / SysAdmin for the NetBSD system in my spare bedroom "Just because something is stupid doesn't mean there isn't someone that doesn't want to do it...."