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How to automate adduser on FreeBSD?
After just posting a query on beginners@perl.org inquiring about the perl API for automating useradd/userdel/usermod on FreeBSD, I got to thinking:

Maybe perl is not the best approach to automating useradd/usermod/userdel.

We have a list of users from a windows system and we want to run a cron job everyday that automates adduser to synchronize the user accounts on our windows systems with our freebsd systems.

What would be the best way to automate usermod/userdel/useradd? perl? bash? bourne? python? ruby? Spawn system process or use an API? Anyone got an example to get me started?

Thanks
siegfried
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