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Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2001 12:01:02 -0400
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf AT redhat DOT com>
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Subject: Re: On the subject of account management
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On Tue, Sep 18, 2001 at 10:25:46AM -0500, David Monk wrote:
>I am starting a little project to write a set of scripts to make account
>management in cygwin easier.
>To start with, I am half way finished with an initial useradd script. It is
>written in bash and on NT based systems, is basically a wrapper to the NT
>`net user` command. It also adds the newly created user to /etc/passwd On
>Win9x/ME systems, it will write the output to /etc/passwd in the proper
>format.
>I plan to eventually have the following tools:
>useradd    - for adding new users
>userdel    - for removing users
>usermod    - for modifying accounts
>groupadd    - same for groups
>groupdel    - same for groups
>groupmod    - again, same but for groups
>I am hoping to make one set of scripts that are portable to/from NT and 9x
>based systems. The NT portion of the scripts will also allow management
>within a domain.
>
>If anyone has any suggestion for such a set of scripts or would like to help
>out, please email me directly at david AT purplebear DOT net

I think I've already suggested that possibly this kind of functionality should
be added to existing utilities like mkpasswd.

It is at least worth investigating this before proposing complicated scripts
for accomplishing this purpose.

cgf

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