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Re: Is there an opposite to adduser?



In your email to me, Dirk Herr-Hoyman, you 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.

Funny.. I have them...

Tim

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