On Fri, 2002-07-12 at 01:07, Devin Heitmueller wrote: > * It requires all sorts of shell escaping for input (since it takes the > username on the command line), > * You can't set the initial password, > * You have to parse stderr in order to get error feedback. > > I tend to agree with John. It would be worthwhile if there was a > programmatic interface to useradd, perhaps as a library. The useradd > binary could be just a wrapper to the library. What about Redhats libuser ? Name : libuser Relocations: (not relocateable) Version : 0.50.2 Vendor: Red Hat, Inc. Release : 1 Build Date: Tue 16 Apr 2002 10:58:20 PM CEST Install date: Fri 10 May 2002 07:48:31 PM CEST Build Host: porky.devel.redhat.com Group : System Environment/Base Source RPM: libuser-0.50.2-1.src.rpm Size : 847365 License: LGPL Packager : Red Hat, Inc. <http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla> Summary : A user and group account administration library. Description : The libuser library implements a standardized interface for manipulating and administering user and group accounts. The library uses pluggable back-ends to interface to its data sources. Sample applications modeled after those included with the shadow password suite are included. There are currently a backend for ldap,files,shadow.. -- Nils Olav Selåsdal <NOS@Utel.no> System Developer, UtelSystems a/s w w w . u t e l s y s t e m s . c o m
