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From: j@bonnie.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Adduser script
Date: 3 Jul 1995 10:20:22 +0200
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Makoto Idzumi <idzumi@shimane-u.ac.jp> wrote:
>In article <3sn6pb$ilj@orchard.la.locus.com> sassan@locus.com 
>write: 
>> I remember reading something about an adduser script in PERL. Does
>> anyone know where I could get a copy of that or in fact any other
>> adduser scripts?
>
>FreeBSD 2.0R is running on my machine.  I found /stand/adduser.sh 
>though it is not written in Perl :-)

It went away in 2.0.5.  It has never been supposed to be a user
interface, just a backend for sysinstall only.  Sysinstall is now
using the regular adduser.

I don't know exactly in which directory the script lives, but i've
simply called ``adduser'', and magically enough, the dialog appeared
on my screen. :-)

-- 
cheers, J"org                      private:   joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
                                   http://www.sax.de/~joerg/

Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)