From: "Darryl Ross" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > I was just curious because when you run the "adduser" script it does
> > everything for you, Like adding you to the ftp,telnet,sshd Etc. Etc..
> access
> > files. Where as "useradd" does not do that.
>
> I think that you will find that 'useradd' is the command that adds new
users
> to the system (host system, I can't say about the VS because I haven't had
a
> chance to try and install one yet), and 'adduser' is a script that does a
> bit of funky processing and calls 'useradd' with all the flags that you
need
> to do things like create home directories, etc.
>
> Hope that helps.
>
> Darryl
>
Under Red Hat, at least, adduser is just a symbolic link to useradd.
There is no such thing as ftp, telnet or ssh "access files". Once you are
added as a system user (to /etc/passwd, by useradd or adduser) you have
access to all these services by default.
