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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.
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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.
>

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-- 
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...."