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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!cpk-news-feed2.bbnplanet.com!cam-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.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: 11 Feb 1997 22:53:40 -0500 Organization: Panix Lines: 21 Message-ID: <5dres4$q38@panix2.panix.com> References: <none-ya023480001912962244220001@news.infi.net> <5dnfrp$gob@panix2.panix.com> <DERAADT.97Feb10191845@zeus.theos.com> <none-ya023480001102971923370001@news.infi.net> Reply-To: tls@rek.tjls.com NNTP-Posting-Host: panix2.panix.com Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:5358 In article <none-ya023480001102971923370001@news.infi.net>, Jeremy Williams <none@domain.com> wrote: >Alrighty then. To bring this thread back to theme, I origionally asked why >there was no adduser function in NetBSD/Mac68k. I have since, with the >help of many people, gotten a working solution. Thanks fo that. Now to >clarify, is there any plan to add a real addusr binary to the source tree >for a future release? A number of people are of the opinion that it's not appropriate to distribute such a program with the operating system, as it in many -- perhaps the majority -- of cases requires customization to the local environment which is ultimately more painful than writing it oneself. Certainly, I've never found 'vipw' and 'mkdir' hard to use. I do *not* speak for NetBSD. -- Thor Lancelot Simon tls@panix.COM Stumbling drunk in the railyard looking for God: http://www.panix.com/~tls/