On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 3:19 PM, Salvador Fandino <sfand...@yahoo.com>wrote:
> On 03/14/2011 07:59 PM, siegfr...@heintze.com wrote: > >> Does anyone know the perl API (presumably on CPAN) for >> useradd/userdel/usermod to automate the manipulation of users on FreeBSD >> systems? On Linux systems? >> thanks, >> Siegfried >> >> > "adduser" is actually a Perl program that uses "useradd" under the hood, at > least on Linux (FreeBSD removed Perl from its core so it may be an > executable there now). > > If none of the wrapper modules available from CPAN suits your need you can > use its as a sample and even copy&paste code from there into your script. If seen quite a few automated user management tools written in Perl and they all seem to just wrap useradd, so I'm guessing that's the "standard" way to achieve it. Katie -- CoderStack http://www.coderstack.co.uk/php-jobs The Software Developer Job Board