At 7:06 PM -0800 11/27/02, Terry Lambert wrote:
NAKAJI Hiroyuki wrote:
> My /usr/sbin/adduser, updated on Nov/23/2002 21:58 JST, does
> not call pw command. It adds account to /etc/master.passwd and
> invokes 'pwd_mkdb'.
>
See 'sub new_users' function in /usr/sbin/adduser.
There are two "adduser" scripts. One is perl, and one was written
to use "pw" and provide the same semantics, in a shell script, as
part of the "perl purge" that happened recently.
One of them pukes on the trailing $, and the other doesn't.
It's confusing, unless you caught that we were talking about
most recent -current.
Well, I took Terry's earlier patch to 'pw', and modified it so that
login names can include a trailing '$' (among other things). I
tried this, and immediately ran into the problem that 'pw' wants
to create a group-name the same as the login-name. Perhaps it would
be best for us just to leave it such that any valid login name is
also a valid group name. So, I should probably redo this update
again, because it can be much simpler.
However, that doesn't answer the question of which 'adduser' is
actually expected to be used in 5.0-current. Does someone have
the shell-script (non-perl) version of adduser? Is it named
something else, perhaps?
Or are we going to ship 5.0-release with an 'adduser' that does
require perl, even though perl is not in the base system?
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