Re: [Sheflug] enteruser pw pw.conf

["Chris J" <cej [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

And Lo! The Great Prophet fred uttered these words of wisdom:
> Hi sheflug members,
> 
> Trying to get enteruser working on Mandrake system, it calls pw and
> requires pw.conf file, any one know if its available to download and
> install for mandrake.

Er ... just a quicky (and shoot me down if I'm missing something) ... but 
passwords on FreeBSD are stored differently to Linux are they not? A quick 
search reveals that, like OpenBSD, it has a hashed version of the password 
file /etc/spwd.db which, unless there is a PAM module for it, Linux won't 
understand.

Thus I don't know if you can use BSD user management tools on Linux without 
installing lots of bits. Is there any particular reason why you can't use 
useradd?

>
> It can create user accounts with the creation of public_html directory
> 

If it's for this, then useradd can create home directories based on a 
skeleton if you specify the "-m" flag ... the skeleton is usually
/etc/skel but you can change this with the "-k" switch. useradd just copies 
this directory to the new users home (i.e., the equivalent of just doing:
cp -pr /etc/skel $HOME ).

If I've missed summat, shout :)

Chris...

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