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Subject: Re: Adding users to a list auto?
From: Tim Connolly <tec @ mountain . net>
Organization: Mountain.Net, Inc.
Date: Fri, 01 May 1998 16:55:15 -0400
To: Bryan Fullerton <bryanf @ samurai . com>
Cc: "majordomo-users @ GreatCircle . COM" <majordomo-users @ GreatCircle . COM>
References: <354A30E1.96D6FA1@mountain.net> <19980501164751.A21349@samurai.com>

Bryan Fullerton wrote:

> On Fri, May 01, 1998 at 04:30:25PM -0400, Tim Connolly <tec@mountain.net> wrote:
> > Has anyone been able to use "adduser" to create an account and add the email
> > address to a mailing list ?
>
> On many OSs, "adduser" is just a perl or shell script - adding someone to a
> list is rather trivial, just add in a line to have it mail a subscribe message to
> majordomo (and make sure adduser isn't readable by users, since it'll have the
> list password in plaintext [unless you get really fancy]).
>
> I'd be able to give you a more specific answer if I knew which *NIX you're using.
>

Enough said, my only problem is my sys-admin wants to be able to add users who dial
into certain pops into certain mailing lists... Now I just need to mod adduser to ask
the person creating the account which pop this account will call.

Thanks for the info.

-- Tim Connolly tec@mountain.net     MountainNet, Inc.
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