From owner-freebsd-current Sat Aug 8 20:10:23 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA02121 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Sat, 8 Aug 1998 20:10:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail.camalott.com ([208.203.140.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA02097 for ; Sat, 8 Aug 1998 20:10:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from joelh@gnu.org) Received: from detlev.UUCP (tex-97.camalott.com [208.229.74.97]) by mail.camalott.com (8.8.7/8.8.5) with ESMTP id WAA29296; Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:11:19 -0500 Received: (from joelh@localhost) by detlev.UUCP (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA18156; Sat, 8 Aug 1998 13:08:33 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from joelh) Date: Sat, 8 Aug 1998 13:08:33 -0500 (CDT) Message-Id: <199808081808.NAA18156@detlev.UUCP> To: wosch@panke.de.freebsd.org CC: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: <199808071854.UAA20965@campa.panke.de> (message from Wolfram Schneider on Fri, 7 Aug 1998 20:54:21 +0200 (MET DST)) Subject: Re: removing -batch option from adduser command From: Joel Ray Holveck Reply-to: joelh@gnu.org References: <199808071854.UAA20965@campa.panke.de> Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > I want remove the adduser(8) option `-batch'. Adduser was written as > an *interactive* command for newbies. The pw(8) does now a much better > job for adding users from command line. Also, the -batch option is > not well tested, buggy and unsupported. While you're at it, kindly add pw(8) to the SEE ALSO section of the adduser(8) manpage. Happy hacking, joelh -- Joel Ray Holveck - joelh@gnu.org - http://www.wp.com/piquan Fourth law of programming: Anything that can go wrong wi sendmail: segmentation violation - core dumped To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message