From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Dec 29 11:51:35 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E694E37B401 for ; Sun, 29 Dec 2002 11:51:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from post-21.mail.nl.demon.net (post-21.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.20]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1F09443E4A for ; Sun, 29 Dec 2002 11:51:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cls@raggedclown.net) Received: from [212.238.197.102] (helo=mailhost.raggedclown.net) by post-21.mail.nl.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1) id 18SjTA-000NAQ-00 for FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.org; Sun, 29 Dec 2002 19:51:32 +0000 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mailhost.raggedclown.net (Ragged Clown Mail Gateway [dawn]) with ESMTP id 44D9D1663 for ; Sun, 29 Dec 2002 20:51:31 +0100 (CET) Received: from willow.raggedclown.net (willow.raggedclown.intra [192.168.1.10]) by mailhost.raggedclown.net (Ragged Clown Mail Gateway [dawn]) with ESMTP id CCA02F04 for ; Sun, 29 Dec 2002 20:51:19 +0100 (CET) Received: by willow.raggedclown.net (Ragged Clown Host [willow], from userid 1009) id 18D5F225D9; Sun, 29 Dec 2002 20:51:20 +0100 (CET) Date: Sun, 29 Dec 2002 20:51:20 +0100 From: Cliff Sarginson To: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: adduser Message-ID: <20021229195120.GA883@raggedclown.net> References: <20021229185302.GA291@raggedclown.net> <12925226463.20021229203158@dds.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <12925226463.20021229203158@dds.nl> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS 0.3.12pre8 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 On Sun, Dec 29, 2002 at 08:31:58PM +0100, Alex wrote: > > Dear/Beste Cliff, > > Sunday, December 29, 2002, 7:53:02 PM, you wrote: > > > adduser is broken. > > Jeez, people wonder why FreeBSD is not more popular. > > FreeBSD is for a number of reasons not popular. One is that people > like you that produce negative PR without cause. > Negative PR ? I do my best to promote it. That does not mean being uncritical. I tried the simple act of adding a user to my system. It failed, repeatingly asking me for a user name I had already given. You should not have to have the brain of Einstein in order to put a new user on your system. People like me, users of what I consider to be a very superior operating system, that just lacks manners. As a matter of fact, immediately after sending that email I started on writing a decent mechanism for adding users. If that is negative PR then I am sorry. A job that should take a few minutes, didn't. When finished I will submit it through the normal channels. It is no good pretending that FreeBSD is a user-friendly system, it is not. As soon as people start paying attention to these fripperies, the sooner it will be realised that it is streets ahead of most other OS'es. -- Regards Cliff Sarginson The Netherlands [ This mail has been checked as virus-free ] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message