Subject: How to know latest way of doing things? Date: Mon, Jul 19, 1999 at 01:37:14PM -0400
In reply to:Ben Cranston Quoting Ben Cranston([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Re: the recent exchange on how to add a new userid to a Linux system: > > Patrick Kirk wrote: > > > Thanks. I didn't even know there was a command adduser! Why is it better > > than useradd? > > As a newby myself, this hit a nerve. How are we to know that adduser is > a later (therefore better) version of useradd? That's just a guess at > the history, but remember, there are a bunch of old documents out there > that will still be describing the old version of things months and perhaps > years after the gurus purge their mental caches of a "solved problem". > > I setup PCMCIA ether networking on my Fujitsu running Debian using the > general network setup data in the "Running Linux" book. It actually works, > but it was only months later I discovered the PCMCIA package stuff that > has a real nice automatic infrastructure for issuing the ifconfig and > route statements that I was semimanually entering. > > How is a newby to know that "adduser" is preferable to "useradd" when a > "man user" just pops both out? How was I to know to read the PCMCIA stuff > instead of the general networking stuff in "Running"? > > KUTGW > Maybe by reading the man pages for both and making the decision as to which would be better for you. apropos users (edited) addgroup (8) - add a user or group to the system adduser (8) - add a user or group to the system useradd (8) - Create a new user or update default new user information userdel (8) - Delete a user account and related files usermod (8) - Modify a user account HTH, YMMV, HAND -- Linux represents a best-of-breed UNIX, that is trusted in mission critical applications, and - due to it's open source code - has a long term credibility which exceeds many other competitive OS's. - Microsoft internal memo - http://www.opensource.org/halloween2.html _______________________________________________________ Wayne T. Topa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>