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Re: Telnet Settings

From: Shawn Hogan
Date: Saturday, July 11, 1998
Time: 8:22:17 pm

Mike Phillips wrote:

>I am using the following to addusers to my system:
>
>adduser -c "<FName> <LName>" -g 100 -M -s /bin/false <Login>
>
>This throws up! Entering:
>
>adduser -c <FName> <LName> -g 100 -M -s /bin/false <Login> ***NOTICE THE
>LACK OF QUOTATION MARKS***
>
>works in terms of the script but the useradd command on my host throws up
>because of the lack of the quotes. Any ideas on what I can do here?
>
>Mike
>
>BTW: We are now 100% operational and ISPSUCKS is no more!

The telnet script filters out quotes, because it uses them when passing
variables to the session.

You could modify the adduser routine I suppose... (there isn't a whole
lot that can be done on the Optigold side)... It HAS to filter them out,
and there is no getting around it.

- Shawn

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