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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting How to automate adduser on FreeBSD? Post 302505670 by siegfried on Thursday 17th of March 2011 02:31:12 PM

03-17-2011

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I talked to my colleague and we would like to solicit help with alternatives to a plain bash script (because of security concerns). You mentioned a web server as one alternative. How would we authenticate against an active directory security group with a freebsd machine that utilizes radius and not LDAP?

How would we actually write the code to add/remove/modify users? Would the web server spawn a shell and do the commands useradd/userdel/usermod commands or is there another way? I've been looking in the perl CPAN API's and I could not find the actual function to add/remove users. One would think that perl packages with names like Provision::Unix::User::FreeBSD or Provision::Unix::User would have functions like add_user or remove_user or modify_user but these don't!

Also: I don't understand what you mean by a "non-tty batch spin-off". Should we be considering these options too?
thanks,
siegfried

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user

USER(8) 						    BSD System Manager's Manual 						   USER(8)

NAME

     user -- manage user login information on the system

SYNOPSIS

     user add -D [options]
     user add [options] user
     user del -D [options]
     user del [options] user
     user info [options] user
     user mod [options] user

DESCRIPTION

     The user utility acts as a frontend to the useradd(8), usermod(8), userinfo(8), and userdel(8) commands.  The utilities by default are built
     with EXTENSIONS.  This allows for further functionality.

     For a full explanation of the options available, please see the relevant manual page.

EXIT STATUS

     The user utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs.

FILES

     /etc/skel/.[A-z]*		   Skeleton files for new user
     /etc/usermgmt.conf 	   Configuration file for user, group(8) and the backend commands mentioned above.

SEE ALSO

     chpass(1), group(5), passwd(5), usermgmt.conf(5), useradd(8), userdel(8), userinfo(8), usermod(8)

HISTORY

     The user utility first appeared in NetBSD 1.5.  It is based on the addnerd package by the same author.

AUTHORS

     The user utility was written by Alistair G. Crooks <agc@NetBSD.org>.

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