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authorJordan K. Hubbard <jkh@FreeBSD.org>1995-01-03 09:46:14 +0000
committerJordan K. Hubbard <jkh@FreeBSD.org>1995-01-03 09:46:14 +0000
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Update adduser to version by Wolfram Schneider. Sorry, Gary, but his
adduser is a Cadillac to your Volkswagen.. :-) Submitted by: wosch@cs.tu-berlin.de
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-.\" Copyright (c) 1994 GB Data Systems
-.\" All rights reserved.
-.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
-.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions
-.\" are met:
-.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright
-.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
-.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright
-.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the
-.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
-.\" 3. The name of the Author may not be used to endorse or promote products
-.\" derived from this software without specific prior written permission.
-.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY GB DATA AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND
-.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE
-.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE
-.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL GB DATA OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE
-.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL
-.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS
-.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION)
-.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT
-.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY
-.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF
-.\" SUCH DAMAGE.
-
-.\" $Id: adduser.8,v 1.2 1994/12/30 12:15:39 ache Exp $
-
-.Dd December 28, 1994
+.Dd January 3, 1994
.Dt ADDUSER 8
.Os FreeBSD
@@ -35,40 +9,18 @@
.Nm
.Sh DESCRIPTION
-.Nm
-is a Perl script for adding users under a BSD system. It has the ability to
-keep track of the current userid and increment this automaticly. It can
-also use a default group id.
-.Ss SETUP
-In the normal course of usage there is no setup needed. If you wish to use
-auto-increment mode, you must do two things.
-
-.Bl -enum -compact
-.It
-Change the variable in
-.Pa /etc/adduser.conf
-to allow for the auto-increment
-.It
-Change the file
-.Pa /etc/userids
-to show the current id number.
-.El
-
-To use the default group id, just change the variable in
-.Pa /etc/adduser.conf
-to reflect the group that you wish as a default.
-
+.Nm Adduser
+is a perl script for adding users to the system. Still awaiting
+a man page entry for it but for now you can probably get away with just
+typing
+.Nm adduser
+and filling in the blanks.
.Sh FILES
-.Pa /etc/adduser.conf
-.Pa /etc/userids
-.Pa /usr/share/skel/*
-
+Beats me. Wolfram? Man page please! :-)
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr pwd_mkdb 8
.Xr perl 1
.Sh HISTORY
-The adduser command appeared in FreeBSD 2.0C (12-94).
-
-
-
+The adduser command first appeared in FreeBSD 2.0C (12-94) by Gary Clark, II.
+This newer version was submitted by Wolfram Schneider.