Re: [SLUG] users/passwords expiring

From: Mario Lombardo (mario@alienscience.com)
Date: Sat Aug 28 2004 - 17:52:30 EDT


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Page 46 of "Samba-3 By Example" by John H. Terpstra. (I guess he wrote the
official Samba HOWTO)

"There are a number of tools for user management under UNIX. Commonly known
ones include: useradd, adduser."

However, from my machine RH9.0:
/usr/sbin/adduser -> useradd

I don't know if adduser was ever another program.
man adduser brings up useradd(8)

/mario

On Friday 27 August 2004 21:00, you as Ronald KA4INM Youvan wrote:
> >>useradd [user], passwd [user], usermod -G [group] [user], smbadduser
> >> [user],
>
> Does anyone know why all of my books say: "adduser" when it's "useradd"
> in Slackware? (I know nothing about any other distro.)
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