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- From: stu@valinor.mythical.com (Stu Labovitz)
- Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle
- Subject: Re: How to restore PASSWORD from REQUESTS? (was Re: Eek.
- Keywords: sysman
- Message-ID: <gyeauB1w165w@valinor.mythical.com>
- Date: Sun, 15 Nov 92 09:45:27 CST
- References: <BxqC5v.7rL@cs.psu.edu>
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- fenner@postscript.cs.psu.edu (Bill Fenner) writes:
- > In article <2Fi8TB4w165w@works.uucp> ferret@works.uucp (Dave Ferret) writes:
- > |The QUESTION: Has anyone up to date written something to parse the
- > |contents of the REQUESTS file directly into User info in the password
- > |file?
- >
- > Well, I wrote something to do this for 1.64 . . . I'll mail you the code
- > if you'd like. You might want to look at SYSMAN IMPORT... if you EXPORT the
- > current password file, then add records on the end from the REQUESTS file,
- > then IMPORT the new password file, you should be in good shape...
-
- Is SYSMAN IMPORT an undocumented operating mode for SYSMAN? If you
- simply type SYSMAN at the MS-DOS command line, it responds:
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- Waffle 1.65 sysman (C) Copyright 1992 Darkside International
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- sysman create Create a new password file and index file
- sysman check Consistency check of password files
- sysman clean Remove directories from deleted users
- sysman crunch Remove deleted entries from password file
- sysman export List password file to an ascii text file
- sysman find Verify existence and location of an account
- sysman index Build index for the password file
- sysman list List accounts and some information
- sysman purge Purge old or inactive accounts
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- Stuart L Labovitz Internet: stu@valinor.mythical.com
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