hmm, on Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 01:42:44AM +0200, frantisek holop said that
> googling around a bit, it seems that historically, "adduser"
> is a vendor added "convinience" script to make useradd
> "friendlier", whatever that means.  but of course there are
> as many variations on this as there are unices...  let's not
> even get into linux...

what variety :]

netbsd: only useradd (as far as i can tell)
freebsd: adduser shell script
debian: adduser perl script
fedora, centos: adduser is a symbolic link to useradd

i thought at least the bsd's kind of had the same thing...

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