From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 23 7:28:54 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cactus.fi.uba.ar (cactus.fi.uba.ar [157.92.49.108]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8214037B406 for ; Mon, 23 Jul 2001 07:28:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from fgleiser@cactus.fi.uba.ar) Received: from cactus.fi.uba.ar (cactus.fi.uba.ar [157.92.49.108]) by cactus.fi.uba.ar (8.11.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id f6NEQcV50428; Mon, 23 Jul 2001 11:26:41 -0300 (ART) (envelope-from fgleiser@cactus.fi.uba.ar) Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2001 11:26:38 -0300 (ART) From: Fernando Gleiser To: Andreas Pauley Cc: Subject: Re: usermod equivalent? In-Reply-To: <3B5C18AB.9BE2CF9C@qbcon.com> Message-ID: <20010723112515.H50276-100000@cactus.fi.uba.ar> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Take a look at pw(8). It can do that, and a lot more. Fer On Mon, 23 Jul 2001, Andreas Pauley wrote: > Hi, > > I just installed FreeBSD 4.3 > Now I need to add myself to the "wheel" group in order to be able to su > to root. > (I'm assuming it's "wheel" because that's what it is in NetBSD and > OpenBSD). > > There doesn't seem to be a usermod (or useradd, userdel for that > matter), and /stand/sysinstall only allows you to add new users. > > Do I need to install an additional package, or should I just vi my > /etc/group? > > And how do I delete a user without "userdel -r"? > > Another thing: I see the encrypted password is stored in /etc/passwd. > How do I enable shadow passwords? > (Does this have anything to do with my security level?) > > Thanks, > Andreas. > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message