Re: OT: adduser vs manual file manipulation [WAS: Re: List of users from a certain group]
On Sun, Feb 02, 2003 at 01:03:20PM +0100, Johannes Zarl wrote:
> Colin Watson wrote:
> > In general, I suggest using adduser on Debian rather than useradd.
> > useradd is the low-level tool; adduser is the higher-level utility which
> > is intended to be easier to use.
>
> I always edited the group, passwd and shadow files per hand to
> add/remove/alter groups/users and I never had any problem.
You're welcome to do it by hand; it's just more work that way.
Cheers,
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Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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