[Cpu-users] cpu-1.4 almost ready

[Blake M. <ma...@db...>]

Hello Everyone,

This weekend I got the following items completed on the todo list:
* All group functions now work
* Usermod is finished
* Configuration file options are documented
* File functionality all works now

New features:
* Cat now displays groups and users
* CPU now supports the _exact_ same options as user{add,mod,del} and
  group{add,mod,del}. There are a few command line options that are not yet
  supported, but they will be in the future
* CPU command line behavior has now changed to be much more like the
  user,group{add,mod,del} programs
* When you add a user as follows: cpu useradd -G wheel,root username
  CPU will go and search the directory for those groups, and add the users to
  them or warn you if the groups are not found

Things left to do before I can get 1.4.0 out the door:
* Some testing (feel free to help out :-))
* Get CPU working so you can specify a username and a unix style password file
  to get that users information from (only getting their shadow password
  currently works)
* Look for FIXME and other comments in the sourcecode, and do that
* Get the man pages rewritten
* Be able to also administer flat files (write a plugin for it)

The new sourcecode is not yet in CVS, but it will be early tomorrow morning,
I'm -6 GMT. In any case, once I get the new code in I could really use some
people testing it and making comments on things they would like to see.
Thanks.

-Blake

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