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robert cyphers writes
> I want to call the command
>   nu -A  name realname uid gid shell pwd home reuse mh  
domain
> to install new users from inside a program.
> 
> My problem is:
> 
> Can I get 'nu -A' to accept "*" as a password with the  
usual meaning,
> i.e. login disabled?

Nope.  Think about it.  Nu is going to use whatever you  
type in, run crypt on it, and stuff THAT string into the  
/etc/passwd (or netinfo ) file.  Alternately, it will feed  
the string to passwd, and passwd should barf, because it's  
too short.  Entering it on the command line too, you would  
have to protect it from globbing.

HOWEVER
You can get around this by modifying the DeleteAccts shell.   
Since nu is a binary that calls the script, I don't see a  
way to make it call it with extra variables.  But you could  
have DeleteAccts check an environment variable, and based  
on that either delete the account or merely disable it.  (I  
would tend to modify the script so that disableing the  
account was default, deleting it required the extra  
variable.

Make that script make a series of calls to niutil to change  
the passwd from sdkfjqp712047612 to *sdkfjqp712047612. (*  
never comes up as the result of encrypting the password,  
and this way, you can remove the * and his old password  
works)



> 
> Also, should 'reuse' and 'mh' be N/Y or 0/1?

You want an integer. 
From /etc/nulib/nu2.sh:
if ($wantMHsetup) then
    mkdir Mail
    mkdir Mail/inbox
    ...

see also /etc/nu.cf