Date: 29 Sep 1997 11:35:11 +0200 From: Wolfram Schneider <wosch@cs.tu-berlin.de> To: Annelise Anderson <andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu> Cc: Sean Eric Fagan <sef@Kithrup.COM>, chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Microsoft brainrot (was: r-cmds and DNS and /etc/host.conf) Message-ID: <p1i3emoxy28.fsf@panke.panke.de> In-Reply-To: Annelise Anderson's message of Sun, 28 Sep 1997 02:15:25 -0700 (PDT) References: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970928005949.17419A-100000@andrsn.stanford.edu>
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Annelise Anderson <andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu> writes: > But consider a simpler situation--adduser. One runs adduser and in > its 2.2-STABLE manifestation, it offers (once only) an opportunity > to select defaults. It doesn't say where these defaults are being > stored, or offer the information that this file can be edited later. > It doesn't explain that a valid shell has to be in /etc/shells (would > you like to look at /etc/shells?), even though ksh is offered as an > option, and ksh neither comes with the system nor is it installed > on my computer. Adduser offers ksh only if ksh was installed in /bin, /usr/bin, or /usr/local/bin. Adduser was a hack, not a well designed and documented tool. Until now nobody had the time to rewrite adduser. -- Wolfram Schneider <wosch@apfel.de> http://www.apfel.de/~wosch/
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