On Wed, Aug 31, 2005 at 01:17:47AM +0000, Tom hummel wrote: > > : - Liam J. Foy > > > > From the dicussion so far it looks like we want these. We may not > > be able to immediately remove the old utilities, especially since I'm > > sure a lot of scripts use them, but the new ones have got a lot of > > things going for them and I think we want to shift focus to them. > > I remember the first encounter with 'pw', which wasn't a bad experience > at all. At this time, I only knew Linux/Solaris useradd userdel etc. > There was something about Linux that I disliked alot, it was the > existence of useradd adduser groupadd addgroup... > > Having to look into the manpage of the one I suspected to be the one I > expected to be, was nothing but annoying. 'pw' came in very handy > because no dork could strole in, call it 'wp' and slightly changed the > way it's doing the same job. > > conclusion: I like 'pw' > > tom
Ok, but pw also lets you say pw adduser/useradd/groupadd/addgroup, so while the documentation may stick to one convention, your best buddy might not. The point of having these tools separately available is that a) we _can_ stick to having fooadd/foodel _only_, and b) everything else has these now already. They're all still hardlinks to the same program anyway. --Devon