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Re: LSB specification for adding users and groups



Daniel Quinlan <quinlan@transmeta.com> wrote:
> Okay, could I get someone to summarize the functional differences
> between the Debian adduser script and the "standard" useradd program
> (originally from the shadow utils and AT&T/SVR4)?

adduser is a perl script which calls useradd.

adduser knows about debian policy for creating users (such as what the
different numeric id ranges are supposed to be, such as the way we give
every user a personal gid, such as intializing the home directory based
on /etc/skel, ...)  and is generally more convenient to use in debian
environments than the raw useradd.

I don't think LSB needs to worry about this.

-- 
Raul


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