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Date:      Tue, 22 Apr 2008 07:24:13 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Unga <unga888@yahoo.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: pw create home dir issue
Message-ID:  <347674.38085.qm@web57009.mail.re3.yahoo.com>
In-Reply-To: <200804221307.49108.jonathan@hst.org.za>

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--- Jonathan McKeown <jonathan@hst.org.za> wrote:

> On Tuesday 22 April 2008 12:54, Unga wrote:
> > --- Peter Boosten <peter@boosten.org> wrote:
> > >
> > > I use [pw] without the slash:
> > >
> > > adduser -d /home -q -s /usr/local/bin/rzsh
> > >
> > > Works like charm
> >
> > There is no keyword adduser to the pw(8) :)
> 
> From the manpage:
> 
>      The first one or two keywords provided to pw on
> the command line provide
>      the context for the remainder of the arguments.
>  The keywords user and
>      group may be combined with add, del, mod, show,
> or next in any order.
>      (For example, showuser, usershow, show user,
> and user show all mean the
>      same thing.)  This flexibility is useful for
> interactive scripts calling
>      pw for user and group database manipulation. 
> 
> Please verify that what you're saying is right
> before posting: people rely on 
> this list.
> 

Thanks for highlighting. Apologies for that.

So lets focus now to the main issue.

Unga 


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