In your email to me, Dirk Herr-Hoyman, you 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.
Funny.. I have them... Tim -- (work) [EMAIL PROTECTED] / (home) [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.buoy.com/~tps "It's almost impossible to overestimate the unimportance of most things." -- John Logue ** Disclaimer: My views/comments/beliefs, as strange as they are, are my own.** -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

