Miquel van Smoorenburg ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote on 1 May 1997 11:38: >deluser and adduser try to do everything themselves, but we now have > > useradd and userdel > >which are standard (well, on sysv systems anyway) and documented. The >scripts and all your homemade scripts should call those programs to >do the real work.
I understand these programs can do the basic stuff, but I don't believe a program can do it generally. What must be done to add/remove a user changes from site to site. Just as an example, here we have to: a) include the line in /etc/passwd, create the homedir and copy initial stuff. This is standard, EXCEPT that /etc/skel must be copied with cp -a, so that symlinks are kept. b) include some users, but not all, in /etc/aliases so that they receive general mail. c) create a file in a certain dir for samba configuration. And the passwd file is not in the same machine where all the rest must be done... In summary, I believe adding/removing users is really a job for the administrator. Carlos -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
