Bug 24439

Summary: suggested replament for adduser(8)
Product: Base System Reporter: Daniel Howard <dannyman>
Component: binAssignee: freebsd-bugs (Nobody) <bugs>
Status: Closed FIXED    
Severity: Affects Only Me    
Priority: Normal    
Version: 4.1.1-RELEASE   
Hardware: Any   
OS: Any   

Description Daniel Howard 2001-01-18 21:50:01 UTC 
Useradd is old, and does a decent job, but it pre-dates pw, which means it
edits /etc/master.passwd and runs pwd_mkdb by hand.  It is scarey to hack on
for these reasons.

It is also not maintained.

In August, 1999 I submitted a script I had written to replace adduser, called
enteruser, to Daemon News.  An article talking about the rational for the
script, how it works, and how it can be hacked on, can be found at
http://www.daemonnews.org/199908/enteruser.html

Occasionally I get e-mail from people asking about the "latest version" of
Enteruser ... but it kinda like adduser, it does my bidding already, so what's
this latest version stuff?

Anyway, if you guys wanted to replace adduser, I would be happy to maintain
it, by addressing bugs and feature requests.  EnterUser is implicitly licensed
under BSD terms anyway.  You are more than welcome to it.

Fix: 

A copy of the article can be found at:

http://dell.dannyland.org/~dannyman/stuff/enteruser/

The script itself:

http://dell.dannyland.org/~dannyman/stuff/enteruser/enteruser
Comment 1 Yar Tikhiy 2001-10-13 11:38:58 UTC 
adduser(8) is still maintained (please see the CVS log) and has been
tested thoroughly by now. You see, replacing it with enteruser isn't an
option.
Adding yet another (third!) user-adding utility to the base system isn't,
either.
Have you considered making a port of enteruser?
Comment 2 ashp freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2002-02-09 02:39:56 UTC 
State Changed
From-To: open->closed

While this looks like a nice script, Yar sums up the situation 
well in explaining that this won't ever enter the base system 
as adduser is still maintained.
Comment 3 Daniel Howard 2002-02-20 06:17:23 UTC 
For the record, I have finally gotten around to submitting the port. :)

-danny