On 18:58, Mon 29 Aug 05, Matthew Dillon wrote:
> :
> :Yeah, it is. However, Devon also mentioned we have lots of other
> :things, such as vipw and chsh etc etc. What's the take on adding
> :even more?
> :
> :--
> : - Liam J. Foy
>
> From the dicussion so far it looks like we want
On Wed, Aug 31, 2005 at 01:17:47AM +, Tom hummel wrote:
> > : - Liam J. Foy
> >
> > From the dicussion so far it looks like we want these. We may not
> > be able to immediately remove the old utilities, especially since I'm
> > sure a lot of scripts use them, but the new
> : - Liam J. Foy
>
> From the dicussion so far it looks like we want these. We may not
> be able to immediately remove the old utilities, especially since I'm
> sure a lot of scripts use them, but the new ones have got a lot of
> things going for them and I think we w
On Tue, August 30, 2005 4:32 am, Marcin Jessa said:
> On Mon, 29 Aug 2005 17:10:19 -0700
> "Devon H. O'Dell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Aug 29, 2005 at 05:03:14PM -0700, Devon H. O'Dell wrote:
>> > The point of using tools named like this is that they're in NetBSD,
>> > OpenBSD, Linux
On Mon, 29 Aug 2005 17:10:19 -0700
"Devon H. O'Dell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 29, 2005 at 05:03:14PM -0700, Devon H. O'Dell wrote:
> > The point of using tools named like this is that they're in NetBSD,
> > OpenBSD, Linux and Solaris.
> >
> > --Devon
>
> Eh, and the purpose of re
:
:Yeah, it is. However, Devon also mentioned we have lots of other
:things, such as vipw and chsh etc etc. What's the take on adding
:even more?
:
:--
: - Liam J. Foy
From the dicussion so far it looks like we want these. We may not
be able to immediately remove the old ut
On 02:30, Tue 30 Aug 05, Martin P. Hellwig wrote:
> Liam J. Foy wrote:
>
> >
> >Agreed. /me hates pw. I would just like these tools in, they're
> >nicely documentated and easy to use in my opinion.
> >
> Yeah great, now I finally got a bit comfortable with pw they implement
> something easier ;-)
On Mon, August 29, 2005 6:12 pm, Liam J. Foy said:
> I have ported user* and group* tools from NetBSD. In my personal
> experience and opinion I find them MUCH easier to use when
> administrating users. They also contain functions which we
> currently would have to manually edit /etc/master.passwd
Liam J. Foy wrote:
Agreed. /me hates pw. I would just like these tools in, they're
nicely documentated and easy to use in my opinion.
Yeah great, now I finally got a bit comfortable with pw they implement
something easier ;-)
--
mph
On 17:03, Mon 29 Aug 05, Devon H. O'Dell wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 30, 2005 at 12:55:35AM +0100, Liam J. Foy wrote:
> > On 15:50, Mon 29 Aug 05, Matthew Dillon wrote:
> > >
> > > Just kidding. The utilities look fine. I particularly like the
> > > idea of the -D option, which is to have the p
On Mon, Aug 29, 2005 at 05:03:14PM -0700, Devon H. O'Dell wrote:
> The point of using tools named like this is that they're in NetBSD,
> OpenBSD, Linux and Solaris.
>
> --Devon
Eh, and the purpose of removing pw in favor of these tools is that
pw was made in FreeBSD to emulate their functionality
On Tue, Aug 30, 2005 at 12:55:35AM +0100, Liam J. Foy wrote:
> On 15:50, Mon 29 Aug 05, Matthew Dillon wrote:
> >
> > Just kidding. The utilities look fine. I particularly like the
> > idea of the -D option, which is to have the program adjust the
> > defaults via the config file ba
On 15:50, Mon 29 Aug 05, Matthew Dillon wrote:
>
> :...
> :
> :http://netbsd.gw.com/cgi-bin/man-cgi?useradd++NetBSD-current
> :
> :Also check userdel, usermod, groupadd and groupdel etc etc.
> :Remember they also contain two other options which I wrote for
> :NetBSD to temporary lock users and to
:...
:
:http://netbsd.gw.com/cgi-bin/man-cgi?useradd++NetBSD-current
:
:Also check userdel, usermod, groupadd and groupdel etc etc.
:Remember they also contain two other options which I wrote for
:NetBSD to temporary lock users and to force a new password to be
:given at next login(usermod, userad
On 00:23, Tue 30 Aug 05, Simon 'corecode' Schubert wrote:
> Liam J. Foy wrote:
> >Comments/Productive criticism welcome, rants/flames, no =).
>
> show the diff so we can see what they are like :)
>
> cheers
> simon
>
Instead of show the huge diff, why not just check:
http://netbsd.gw.com/cg
Liam J. Foy wrote:
Comments/Productive criticism welcome, rants/flames, no =).
show the diff so we can see what they are like :)
cheers
simon
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I have ported user* and group* tools from NetBSD. In my personal
experience and opinion I find them MUCH easier to use when
administrating users. They also contain functions which we
currently would have to manually edit /etc/master.passwd for, such
as the ability to force users to change their pas
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