Re: useradd/adduser

From: Peter Pentchev (roam@orbitel.bg)
Date: 05/02/01 

Date: Wed, 2 May 2001 17:11:26 +0300
From: Peter Pentchev <roam@orbitel.bg>
To: Lee Smallbone <lee@kechara.net>

On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 03:12:01PM +0100, Lee Smallbone wrote:
> Hi,
>
> To my surprise, useradd isn't shipped with 4.3-STABLE (at least, not that I can see.)
> Is there any way to use adduser in a non-interative state (run from scripts)?
>
> i.e. $ adduser -d /home2/testuser -u testuser -p password
> (pardon any syntax errors, that is for example only.)
>
> Failing that, where can I get adduser?

'adduser' is the interactive utility; the non-interactive one is pw(8).

G'luck,
Peter 

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