%% Ethan Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: eb> On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 03:39:55AM -0400, Paul D. Smith wrote:
>> # groupadd kevin >> # useradd -g kevin -m kevin >> # passwd kevin eb> um you only have to do it that way if you use roothat. Um, Red Hat did not invent these. They are the standard tools for creating users on most SysV-like flavors of UNIX, such as Solaris, HP-UX, AIX, etc. While Debian may have some better, more unified way, I'll stick with the portable ones, thanks (although I hardly ever use these anyway, I just edit /etc/group and /etc/passwd directly :)--I only use useradd to get the shadow password stuff set up right initially. I _certainly_ never use usermod :). -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Paul D. Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> HASMAT--HA Software Methods & Tools "Please remain calm...I may be mad, but I am a professional." --Mad Scientist ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- These are my opinions---Nortel Networks takes no responsibility for them.