"Alejandro Arturo Barrera Sanchez (Zor)" <abs_at_hermes.ulsa.mx> writes:
Some days ago, i've asked about how to correctly use the useradd
command, because it creates my accounts but they are unusable (disable).
After read several man pages, and make a lot of test, i've found that i
should modify the /usr/var/tcb/files/auth/*/* files and after these run
the authconv command (/usr/tcb/bin/authconv). After this the account is
enable and the password has been changed. You only need to create a script
to modified the /usr/var/tcb/files/auth files an run the authconv.
I ask (not for the first time) _why_ this has to be so baroque? Damn it,
DEC - not everyone has (or wants) X on a particular DU machine, and it
shouldn't take multiple jumping through hoops to add a user in a C2 world!
It was bad, but not awful, under DU 3.2 with the silly /tcb/files/auth
stuff, but the new auth.db scheme is _way_ too easy to get screwed up.
All I want to do is to be able to add users *from the command line* and not
have their passwords be in /etc/passwd - this shouldn't be difficult, and
it's hard to find any excuse for the mess that I've now got with DU 4. If
there's a straightforward solution that doesn't require a GUI, I'm all
ears...
Venting,
Pat Wilson
paw_at_dartmouth.edu
Received on Mon Feb 03 1997 - 20:55:03 NZDT