On Mon, 14 Sep 2009 00:34:59 +0200 frantisek holop <[email protected]> wrote:
> hi there, > > this question was always kind of in the back of my mind: > why are there 2 sets of commands for adding and removing > users? > > looking at the man pages their functionalities quite overlap > and i am not really sure which one is the preferred, if any. > the ports framework uses useradd/userdel if i am not mistaken, > adduser and rmuser are way more chatty and not really in the > unix philosophy (the way i see it: an "untouchable" configuration > file that is read/written by the program, console input in the > forms of questions, etc). > > apart from the historical circumstances (useradd and userdel > first appeared in 2.7) why are they both there? one should > take over everything and the other one should be booted, no? > > -f adduser is something interactiv which makes is easy to do manually. useradd is what i use in my scripts with lots of options i only have to look up once to have them right in that case. Should one of them removed? No?! They serve different usage scenarios. - Robert
