user/group admin tools

Justin C. Sherrill justin at shiningsilence.com
Mon Aug 29 17:40:55 PDT 2005


On Mon, August 29, 2005 6:12 pm, Liam J. Foy said:
> I have ported user* and group* tools from NetBSD. In my personal
> experience and opinion I find them MUCH easier to use when
> administrating users. They also contain functions which we
> currently would have to manually edit /etc/master.passwd for, such
> as the ability to force users to change their password at next
> login and to 'lock' accounts(these options have been added to NetBSD
> already, but you'll have to check the CVS logs to see them). I have
> ported the latest code.
>
> What's the general opinion on this? Would you like them put into
> DragonFly BSD?

Anything originally based on a utility called "addnerd" gets my vote.  :)







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