adding users another way?

Is there any other way to add a user to the system other than the "adduser" script?
FreeBSD 4.3...

>> Is there any other way to add a user

Yes. You can even alter /etc/group, /etc/passwd and /etc/mater.passwd manually.

Tell us what exactly are you trying to do?

I want to make a php script to add new users to the system. So I can just create a new user by adding new lines to those files?
Also, how do I encrypt the password?

>> I want to make a php script to add new users to the system

mod_php can never do this. Perl, being the all purpose scripting language, can do all sort of system tasks and do it more securely than standalone PHP.

>> So I can just create a new user by adding new lines to those files?

mod_php? No way.

>> how do I encrypt the password?

Depend on what language you wish to use.

Check out my following posts in Perl forum:

1) http://forums.devshed.com/showthrea...23249&forumid=6

2) http://forums.devshed.com/showthrea...23561&forumid=6

I noticed that in the second location you posted, the script contains a line like this:

$result = system("/usr/sbin/useradd -m poophead -s /bin/bash");

the "adduser" script cannot do a "-m username" can it? I am able to do that with every other option but the username.
I have decided to use perl cgi to create the script. It does seem that perl is quite a bit more powerful than php for tasks such as this.

>> I noticed that in the second location you posted

I didn't post it, I was just copying the exact useradd's option from poster freakybutt.

>> the "adduser" script cannot do a "-m username" can it?

I don't run Linux and don't have a need to as it wastes my time. Why don't you find out the available option of it from the manpage?

adduser, in FreeBSD, not linux. I did check the man pages, that's why I was making sure to see maybe I was missing something.
man adduser does not list any options for specifying the username in the command.

>> that's why I was making sure to see maybe I was missing something

All Linux distributions and different BSD might use different command with different syntax for adding user.

>> adduser, in FreeBSD, not linux

Use pw instead in FreeBSD.

i need to adduser on my slackware box from web. someone please help me.