[NTLUG:Discuss] Sendmail/setting up user accounts. Mail server change..

[MadHat]

Jonathan Miller wrote:
> 
> If you want an example of how to make passwd and shadow files solely from perl then the following will be of intrest:
> 
> (My implementation has some certain confusing things that I've removed to make it a more general script..)

<SNIP>

> Yes I know I have the same 7 lines twice and I could have made a function or a loop or something. But you know what? I didn't.
> 
> Also passwd.tmp and shadow.tmp are templates that contain the default accounts for the system and generally anything that's not in your datafile.
> 
> This is intended just to be a sample, and not anything I would want you to copy and paste on into a file and expect to work.


I was looking for something similar, the main part being the crypt...  I
know there is another way to do it, but it _IS_ perl...

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MadHat