Miquel van Smoorenburg ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote on 1 May 1997 11:38:
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
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From: Dirk Herr-Hoyman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org
[ question: Is there an opposite to adduser? ]
If you look at /usr/sbin/deluser directly, you'll see it's a
Perl script. A quickly hack too, judging both on the comments
and on the functionality
On Wed, 30 Apr 1997, Christopher W Hafey wrote:
Many of us end up editing /etc/passwd and /etc/group, with nothing
more elaborate than vi. There could be a lint tool (like weblint,
etc.) just for the purpose of checking the integrity of these files.
Perhaps one exists, and it's even
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 :-)
At 10:40 PM 4/30/97 -0400, Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote:
On Wed, 30 Apr 1997, Christopher W Hafey wrote:
Many of us end up editing /etc/passwd and /etc/group, with nothing
more elaborate than vi. There could be a lint tool (like weblint,
etc.) just for the purpose of checking the integrity of
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
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
At 01:44 PM 5/1/97 +0200, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:
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
|/
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
On Thu, 1 May 1997, Dirk Herr-Hoyman wrote:
:At 01:44 PM 5/1/97 +0200, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:
:
:Oh but they are:
:
[ see thread ]
:
:ii passwd 961025-2 Change and administer password and
:group dat
:Mike.
:
[more stuff deleted]
:===
:ii passwd 1.0-5
At 09:28 AM 5/1/97 -0500, Nathan E Norman wrote:
On Thu, 1 May 1997, Dirk Herr-Hoyman wrote:
:At 01:44 PM 5/1/97 +0200, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:
:
:Oh but they are:
:
[ see thread ]
:
:ii passwd 961025-2 Change and administer password and
:group dat
:Mike.
:
[more stuff
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
Dirk Herr-Hoyman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
At 09:28 AM 5/1/97 -0500, Nathan E Norman wrote:
On Thu, 1 May 1997, Dirk Herr-Hoyman wrote:
:At 01:44 PM 5/1/97 +0200, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:
:
:Oh but they are:
:
[ see thread ]
:
:ii passwd 961025-2
At 05:06 PM 5/1/97 +0200, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:
I did a check of what's out there in dselect. It's the 1.0-5 passwd pkg.
Where ARE you getting this pkg, Mike?
$ ll bo/binary/base/passwd_961025-2.deb
-rw-rw-r-- 1 archive archive217082 Apr 19 10:10
On Wed, 30 Apr 1997, Dirk Herr-Hoyman wrote:
If you look at /usr/sbin/deluser directly, you'll see it's a Perl script.
A quickly hack too, judging both on the comments and on the functionality.
I just went thru the exercise of setting up a Debian based server for a
community network, and I
At 06:23 PM 5/1/97 +0100, David Wright wrote:
On Wed, 30 Apr 1997, Dirk Herr-Hoyman wrote:
If you look at /usr/sbin/deluser directly, you'll see it's a Perl script.
A quickly hack too, judging both on the comments and on the functionality.
I just went thru the exercise of setting up a Debian
is there a single command for removing all trace of users from the system
similar to adduser, but in reverse?
BK
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deluser
Thanks. Couldn't find ref to it in man.
Rgds,
BK
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Under /usr/sbin there is a program called deluser. Odd thing, though, I
couldn't
find a man page for it, and it wasn't listed in the see also section of the
adduser man page -- so it isn't obvious at all that it is there :-|
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At 12:52 PM 4/30/97 -0400, you wrote:
Under /usr/sbin there is a program called deluser. Odd thing, though, I
couldn't
find a man page for it, and it wasn't listed in the see also section of the
adduser man page -- so it isn't obvious at all that it is there :-|
If you look at /usr/sbin/deluser
On Wed, 30 Apr 1997, Barrington King wrote:
is there a single command for removing all trace of users from the system
similar to adduser, but in reverse?
Try deluser or userdel.
Vadik.
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