Date: Thu, 01 Jun 2000 17:51:31 +0200 From: Willem Brown <willem@brwn.org> To: Gabriel Ambuehl <gabriel_ambuehl@buz.ch> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Adding user / length of usernames... Message-ID: <39368683.C58B3C0E@brwn.org> References: <12821979544.20000601172243@buz.ch>
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Hi, This is not very elegant but it seems to work. bash-2.03# adduser -s -q <<! > testuser > Test User > sh > > > > > > passwird > passwird > > > > > n > ! Run it interactively and record all the steps. An empty line is like hitting the return key and accepting the default. Regards Willem Brown Gabriel Ambuehl wrote: > > Hello, > I've got some questions regarding adding users. If I try to start > adduser, it shows up an interactive interface for adding users. This > is nice for people who need it rarely or need to have different > configs all the time. I, OTOH, need to have it scripted as we > have to create almost identical accounts over and over (we use them as > login for the FTPd as well as for quota reasons) again. man adduser > shows switches but if I try to use > # adduser -shell no -home /home/web/a/test2_com/web/ test2_com > I end up with the interactive interface as well. What am I doing > wrong? (Linux' useradd did this without any problems but that one > hasn't got any interactive modes, AFAIK). > > And the second question: > > "You can change UT_NAMESIZE in > /usr/include/utmp.h and recompile the world; people have done > this and it works, but you will have problems with any precom- > piled programs, or source that assumes the 8-character name limit > and NIS." - adduser manpage > We won't use NIS but ProFTPd [1] (which handles long > names on Linux without any problems) so is it safe to do that? I'd > like to have longer usernames so I can assign them pretty like the > user's realname making it easy for them to remember it. I think it's a > pain for them to remember and for us to figure out who's really > the owner of something... > > [1] And NFS is going to be used as well as the standard utils such > as chmod and chown. > > CU > Gabriel > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- /* =============================================================== */ /* Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD. The choice is yours. */ /* =============================================================== */ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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