In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Dirk Herr-Hoyman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >At 11:38 AM 5/1/97 +0200, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: >>In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, >>Dirk Herr-Hoyman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>>Is is just me, or is it really the case that >>>no Unix has decent tools for administering user accounts :-), I've pretty >>>much had to do this on every Unix system I've touched over the years ... >>>but now I'm straying :-) >> >>deluser and adduser try to do everything themselves, but we now have >> >> useradd and userdel >> >>which are standard (well, on sysv systems anyway) and documented. The >>scripts and all your homemade scripts should call those programs to >>do the real work. >> > >Heh-heh, but these are NOT in Debian. Which is part of my point. I'd be >happy to these used in Debian.
Oh but they are: $ dpkg -S useradd passwd: /usr/sbin/useradd passwd: /usr/man/man8/useradd.8.gz $ dpkg -l passwd Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge | Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed |/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ||/ Name Version Description +++-===============-==============-============================================ ii passwd 961025-2 Change and administer password and group dat Mike. -- | Miquel van | "I need more space" "Well, why not move to Texas" | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | "No, on my account, stupid." "Stupid? Uh-oh.." | | PGP fingerprint: FE 66 52 4F CD 59 A5 36 7F 39 8B 20 F1 D6 74 02 | -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
