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Date:      Tue, 17 Sep 2002 09:05:29 -0400 (EDT)
From:      John Bleichert <syborg@stny.rr.com>
To:        "Janine C.Buorditez" <johann@broadpark.no>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: user organizer / decent adduser script
Message-ID:  <Pine.LNX.4.44.0209170903590.4585-100000@janeway.vonbek.dhs.org>
In-Reply-To: <20020917142603.562ac3e5.johann@broadpark.no>

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> Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2002 14:26:03 +0200
> From: Janine C.Buorditez <johann@broadpark.no>
> To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG
> Subject: user organizer / decent adduser script
> 
> hi.
> 
> is there some tool that organizes a systems users and their uids? and perhaps
> updates all files belonging to a user with his/hers new user settings?
> 
> also, what about a decent adduser script? enteruser complains about my `ninja'
> class which i've set up in login.conf and as default class in pw.conf. also it
> doesn't seem to make any use of my defaultshell set to tcsh.
> 
> after a while the directory listing of my /var/mail looks like this:
> 
> total 14
> -rw-------   1 iyun     mail          584 Sep  7 13:44 alliance
> -rw-------   1 power    1006          574 Jun 22 12:49 gunn
> -rw-------   1 1011     ninja         594 Aug 27 19:55 iyun
> -rw-------   1 sharizan postfix         0 Jun 22 11:41 jasmin
> -rw-------   1 janine   mail         1470 Sep 17 14:05 janine
> -rw-------   1 postfix  1006            0 Jun 14 01:00 nughaud
> -rw-------   1 pgsql    pgsql           0 Sep  6 00:03 pgsql
> -rw-------   1 thug     ninja         575 Jun 21 21:08 power
> -rw-------   1 jasmin   ninja         590 Jun 13 16:25 sharizan
> -rw-------   1 postfix  postfix       578 Jun 21 21:08 thug
> 
> now, this is all a mess. i'm tired of manual cleanups. any ideas people?
> 
> thanks.
> 
> -- janine
> 

adduser(8), rmuser(8) ? I've simply scripted around these two utilities. 
IMHO keeping UIDs/GIDs straight and/or orderly is highly subjective and 
it's up to *you* to lay it out as you see fit.

JB

#  John Bleichert 
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