account at creation, create accounts with a "*" password (so you can
use alternate authentication schemes without fearing a "default" password
biting you later), and blank passwords.
Yes, adduser could create a blank password account, but this makes it
slightly more difficult to shoot yourself in the foot.
The /etc/adduser.conf entries are:
# use password-based authentication for new users
# defaultusepassword = "yes" | "no"
defaultusepassword = "yes"
# enable account password at creation
# (the password will be prepended with a star if the account isn't enabled)
# defaultenableaccount = "yes" | "no"
defaultenableaccount = "yes"
# allow blank passwords
# defaultemptypassword = "yes" | "no"
defaultemptypassword = "no"
Requested by: alfred
Reviewed by: alfred
group file. Because of the way the group sorting works while printing
out the new file it's not possible at this time to restore comments
in other locations, but at least they won't just disappear altogether.
an *interactive* command for newbies. The pw(8) does now a much better
job for adding users from command line. Also, the -batch option is
not well tested, buggy and unsupported.
This will make a number of things easier in the future, as well as (finally!)
avoiding the Id-smashing problem which has plagued developers for so long.
Boy, I'm glad we're not using sup anymore. This update would have been
insane otherwise.
ask for matching confirmation. I'm sure there is a clever direct-from-perl
ioctl way of putting the terminal into noecho mode, but I don't feel like
learning perl so I just used system. [yes, I'll put stty on the installation
boot floppy as necessary]
I couldn't make any sense of the sentence "Eval variables in this file." so I
left it alone.
also allow creation of new local group when NIS groups are used.
this can probably be done more elegantly, and needs more thought.
crypt salt string begin with a '_', no other crypt's do. If you remove the
initialization of $salt to '_' in sub salt(), everything works as advertised.
Submitted by: Charles Henrich <henrich@crh.cl.msu.edu>
o less restrictive, you can choise uid, gid ...
o invite user into some groups
o encrypted passwords with crypt
o batch mode (for instance, this works now:
$ adduser -batch jkh guest,uuadmin "Jordan K. Hubbard" passwd
see manpage for more details)
Submitted by: Wolfram Schneider <wosch@cs.tu-berlin.de>
