From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Oct 23 1:35:33 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.ausit.com (mail.ausit.com [203.41.163.235]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D964F14C1F for ; Sat, 23 Oct 1999 01:35:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from greg@ausit.com) Received: from wk1 (sun.ausit.com [203.41.163.240]) by mail.ausit.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA01522 for ; Sat, 23 Oct 1999 18:35:13 +1000 Message-ID: <199910231835490384.01B9606F@mail.ausit.com> In-Reply-To: <199910230624.CAA35084@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> References: <199910230624.CAA35084@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> X-Mailer: Calypso Version 3.00.03.02 (1) Date: Sat, 23 Oct 1999 18:35:49 +1000 From: "Greg W" To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: user management Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Grrr ......dont remember asking for rudeness........ Linux, Novell & NT and they all have the same capability built in.............user management by GUI or command line, now if I have to I will mod a script I made to simplify the process, but why re create the wheel ? thats why I sent the email, I am not forcing you or anyone else to change the way YOU do things, so the rudeness was most uncalled for....... A special welcome to a FreeBSD newcomer eh ? *********** REPLY SEPARATOR *********** On 23/10/99 at 2:24 Crist J. Clark wrote: >Greg W wrote, >> Hi all >> >> I want something that is easy and quick to edit user info, remove or add >> users etc, lets say I want to remove 1 , add another, mod ones group, >> change anothers home dir ........ > >vipw > >> I dont wanna type all this, > >Sorry, you'll have to. They're still working on the cerebral neural >interface driver for FreeBSD. > >> and I >> want to see the results graphically so there is no mistakes..... > >vipw uses the text editor of your choice. You can use a really big >font if you'd like. > >> there is a really simple tool in RH linux to do this, is there anything for >> FreeBSD ? >> >> I am aware of man pages, webmin, and prefer if it will run independent of >> desktop used. > >I think you're actually looking for a rather obscure product by a >small software firm in WA. The system is called Windows NT. >-- >Crist J. Clark cjclark@home.com > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message