Re: Is there an opposite to adduser?

[Dirk Herr-Hoyman <hoymand@danenet.wicip.org>]

At 01:44 PM 5/1/97 +0200, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:

>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.

Thanks Mike.  That makes a lot more sense to me.  It would also make more
sense to me if the adduser utility used useradd/userdel, instead of trying
to roll it's own.  A single interface (might as well call it an API) is all
we need to build any passwd maint tool, be it command line or GUI based.

Now I get to figure out why I have 

danenet:~> 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          1.0-5          Change password data.

and not the passwd pkg you have.  But that's another story ...
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Dirk Herr-Hoyman <hoymand@danenet.wicip.org>
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