want to script account management stuff on linux (or solaris) from
perl? see here: http://www.cs.kuleuven.ac.be/~pelov/pam/ . make sure
to read the faq, the two questions in it were the exact two questions i
had. ugly hack or no, it works.
on redhat systems there are several shell utils for managing users.
useradd, userdel, and chpasswd. if one was to make a script to add a
user, the following would work:
system("useradd -c '$gecos' $login");
open(PW, "|chpasswd");
print PW ("$login:$pass\n");
close(PW);
procmail gets distributed with some helper programs. formail is the
most useful. if you need to migrate mail or similar type things it's a
good tool to use.
kevin
--
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fork()'ed on 37058400 made a deal: if she'd stop hookin', i'd stop
meatspace place: work shootin' people. maybe we were aiming high."
--porter, "payback"
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