14 Sep
2021
14 Sep
'21
4:23 p.m.
Hello Samuel!
On 2021-09-14 10:45+0200, Samuel Bächler wrote:
There are two commands adduser and useradd. According
to the manpage
(man useradd) it is more convenient to use adduser.
That's a Debian patch to the man page:
<https://salsa.debian.org/debian/shadow/-/blob/master/debian/patches/505_useradd_recommend_adduser>
I think there's another distro somewhere that recommends the inverse.
Personally I'm a 'useradd' fan, I didn't like the interactive nature of
adduser at some point. Normally, useradd -m 'whoeever' gets what I want,
when on a service desk I ask the end user if they have a crypt string,
then useradd -p 'crypt' -m 'whoever' gets what I want... Just my
personal preference.
Upstream makes no recommendation between the two :)
Ed