From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Jul 6 23:22:17 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id XAA27529 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 6 Jul 1997 23:22:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id XAA27524 for ; Sun, 6 Jul 1997 23:22:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id IAA04962 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Mon, 7 Jul 1997 08:22:10 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.5/8.8.5) id IAA15150; Mon, 7 Jul 1997 08:02:36 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <19970707080236.YR30818@uriah.heep.sax.de> Date: Mon, 7 Jul 1997 08:02:36 +0200 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Subject: Re: addgroup / rmgroup References: <199707051804.EAA03953@labs.usn.blaze.net.au> <199707070143.LAA26654@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.60_p2-3,5,8-9 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199707070143.LAA26654@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>; from Michael Smith on Jul 7, 1997 11:13:03 +0930 Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk (Moved off the -committers list.) As Michael Smith wrote: > > I agree completely. Perhaps it would be better if adduser/rmuser and > > friends were modified to use pw(8)? An interactive front-end is > > definitely useful, even one in #!/bin/sh. > > Is this a "wanted" thing? I'd be happy to generate a 'pw' frontend, > as I already have code for this from a half-finished GUI 'pw' frontend > I was using to test some concepts for the remote config stuff. I was hoping on jkh to get the prototype of his new sysadm^H^H^Hinstall ready. It would probably be best to make this the official frontend then. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)