On Thu, 26 Sep 1996, Emilio Lopes wrote: > Hi! > > Can I make some suggestions for adduser? Here they go... > > 1- Is it possible to make adduser NIS aware? If the the machine is a > NIS client it could warn about adding users to that machine only. If > the machine is a NIS server, it could run "make" in "/var/nis/...". That should be done. Forward that to maor who is now the maintainer. > > 2- Maybe adduser could have an option to automatically generate a > password. There is a debian package (passwdgen or pwgen or genpw or > something like that) that can be used to generate them. If convenient, > this package could even be made part of adduser. pwgen was debianized by me. You can do
adduser --password `pwgen 8` --gecos "Hugo Smilie" hsmilie with adduser 2.11. The functionality you want is already there.