On Sun, 5 Apr 1998 17:55:21 -0400 (EDT), Cristian Gafton wrote:
>On 5 Apr 1998, Bryan C. Andregg wrote:
>
>> Why would you use perl to run useradd and passwd? It is much faster to have
>> perl edit the files by hand.
>
>Because of terrible little not-important non-essential things like proper
>locking, maybe ?
In addition to flock you can use the tried and true, "I am going to add 1000
accounts now. If you do anything to the passwd file I will kill you."
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