On Sat, Jun 21, 2008 at 7:26 PM, Gus Wirth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> All joking aside, luseradd is part of the libuser package and does different
> things than the useradd command which is part of the shadow-utils package.
> In particular, skeleton file setup (the bare bones of a user directory) are
> done with luseradd and not with useradd. See the man pages for additional
> info.
A quick tour through the man pages makes me believe that with
appropriate switch settings, useradd does exactly the same as
luseradd. The immediate striking difference is the -m "create home"
switch to useradd, which seems to be implied in luseradd, as Gus
points out.
The next observed difference is that luseradd refers to field 5 of the
passwd file as gecos, while useradd refers to it as "comment". GECOS
is so old that it predates Unix.
carl
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