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... -f -- save a tree. eat a beaver.