Re: water, water everywhere, but not a drop to drink.

["Paul D. Smith" <pausmith@nortelnetworks.com>]

%% Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net> writes:

  eb> On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 03:39:55AM -0400, Paul D. Smith wrote:

  >> # groupadd kevin
  >> # useradd -g kevin -m kevin
  >> # passwd kevin

  eb> um you only have to do it that way if you use roothat.

Um, Red Hat did not invent these.  They are the standard tools for
creating users on most SysV-like flavors of UNIX, such as Solaris,
HP-UX, AIX, etc.

While Debian may have some better, more unified way, I'll stick with the
portable ones, thanks (although I hardly ever use these anyway, I just
edit /etc/group and /etc/passwd directly :)--I only use useradd to get
the shadow password stuff set up right initially.  I _certainly_ never
use usermod :).

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