Re: Change Useradd Behavior

[Carlos Mennens <carloswill@gmail.com>]

On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 1:50 PM, Stephen Powell <zlinuxman@wowway.com> wrote:
> First of all, "useradd" should not be invoked directly.  I suggest the
> "adduser" frontend to useradd.  Second, /etc/profile, the system-wide
> bash profile, contains a setting for the default umask.  Perhaps this
> is what you want to change?  Or maybe you want to set the DIR_MODE
> variable in /etc/adduser.conf?

I have never heard this before in years or using Linux. I am not
saying you're wrong but I would just like to know why I should not use
'useradd' rather than 'adduser'. I assumed that it was just personal
preference for which you preferred to use but I could be wrong
according to your above statement.