Re: How to know latest way of doing things?
Subject: How to know latest way of doing things?
Date: Mon, Jul 19, 1999 at 01:37:14PM -0400
In reply to:Ben Cranston
Quoting Ben Cranston(zben@ni.umd.edu):
> Re: the recent exchange on how to add a new userid to a Linux system:
>
> Patrick Kirk wrote:
>
> > Thanks. I didn't even know there was a command adduser! Why is it better
> > than useradd?
>
> As a newby myself, this hit a nerve. How are we to know that adduser is
> a later (therefore better) version of useradd? That's just a guess at
> the history, but remember, there are a bunch of old documents out there
> that will still be describing the old version of things months and perhaps
> years after the gurus purge their mental caches of a "solved problem".
>
> I setup PCMCIA ether networking on my Fujitsu running Debian using the
> general network setup data in the "Running Linux" book. It actually works,
> but it was only months later I discovered the PCMCIA package stuff that
> has a real nice automatic infrastructure for issuing the ifconfig and
> route statements that I was semimanually entering.
>
> How is a newby to know that "adduser" is preferable to "useradd" when a
> "man user" just pops both out? How was I to know to read the PCMCIA stuff
> instead of the general networking stuff in "Running"?
>
> KUTGW
>
Maybe by reading the man pages for both and making the decision as to
which would be better for you.
apropos users (edited)
addgroup (8) - add a user or group to the system
adduser (8) - add a user or group to the system
useradd (8) - Create a new user or update default new user
information
userdel (8) - Delete a user account and related files
usermod (8) - Modify a user account
HTH, YMMV, HAND
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