On Wednesday 18 September 2002 06:52 pm, Bsd Neophyte wrote: > --- Jim Durham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 'pw' has different arguments based on the first argument. If you say > > 'pw useradd' then "-M" is not valid. You'll see this if you carefully > > read the man page. > > i have, this is why i noted that there was no "-M" option for the > "useradd" argument under "pw" > > apparently, the "-M" under vanilla "useradd" indicates that a home > directory is not to be created. i was not, and still am not sure if there > was a specific argument that allows for this. from the looks if it i > guess there isn't. >
Hmmm... I just looked at my script to create users here and the argument -m is used. Experimenting shows that -m causes a home directory to be created, whereas the lack of -m causes the user to be added but no home directory created. The current man page for 'pw' does not show -m as an arg for 'pw useradd'. This is apparently wrong. It works as described below under the '-m' arg description with 'pw useradd'. -Jim To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
