Re: Is there an opposite to adduser?
In article <3.0.32.19970501063010.00705e40@danenet.wicip.org>,
Dirk Herr-Hoyman <hoymand@danenet.wicip.org> wrote:
>At 11:38 AM 5/1/97 +0200, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:
>>In article <3.0.32.19970430131119.006be420@danenet.wicip.org>,
>>Dirk Herr-Hoyman <hoymand@danenet.wicip.org> wrote:
>>>Is is just me, or is it really the case that
>>>no Unix has decent tools for administering user accounts :-), I've pretty
>>>much had to do this on every Unix system I've touched over the years ...
>>>but now I'm straying :-)
>>
>>deluser and adduser try to do everything themselves, but we now have
>>
>> useradd and userdel
>>
>>which are standard (well, on sysv systems anyway) and documented. The
>>scripts and all your homemade scripts should call those programs to
>>do the real work.
>>
>
>Heh-heh, but these are NOT in Debian. Which is part of my point. I'd be
>happy to these used in Debian.
Oh but they are:
$ dpkg -S useradd
passwd: /usr/sbin/useradd
passwd: /usr/man/man8/useradd.8.gz
$ dpkg -l passwd
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge
| Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Description
+++-===============-==============-============================================
ii passwd 961025-2 Change and administer password and group dat
Mike.
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