Subject: Re: Can't find 'adduser' on 1.3(i386)
To: None <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
From: Dave Burgess <burgess@cynjut.neonramp.com>
List: port-i386
Date: 01/09/1998 00:15:44
>
> On Sun, 04 Jan 1998 18:34:10 +0800
> Deng Hongwei <dhongwei@sz.cei.gov.cn> wrote:
>
> > I've download NetBSD-1.3-Release(i386) from ftp.netbsd.org,
> > and installed it. But I can't find the 'adduser' command at all.
>
> This needs to go into the FAQ... :-)
Would that be "again" or "in larger type"? There are only four
references to it in there now....
The script is already in the FAQ, as well as a pointer to my web site,
which has about four of them.
>
> The adduser(8) manual page describes the process of adding a user. NetBSD
> does not ship with an adduser command, because no one has written one
> that is general enough to meet everyone's needs.
>
> Jason R. Thorpe thorpej@nas.nasa.gov
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