On Wed, 2 Jun 1999, Daniel Quinlan wrote: > If I recall correctly, I think Debian has a standard non-interactive > program for .deb packages to add a user. Red Hat has a adduser program > too. Do some rpms use it?
Comparing RH 5.2 and Debian 2.1, both have an adduser command as well as useradd. On RH, adduser is a symlink to useradd, which is from shadow utils. On Debian, useradd is the same showdow utils command, and adduser is a (quite different) Perl script apparently Debian specific. All are non-interactive and allow specifying of several options such as UID, GID, etc. > Assuming we agree that a specification is needed, there are (more or > less) three acceptable ways we could go about this: > > * Use an existing specification (such as SUSv2 if it covers this) In a cursory glance through a couple of volumes, I don't see any specification of user administration tools in SUS2. > * Document existing practice (one way that one or more Linux > distributions do it) It seems that useradd from shadow utils would be a good starting point, if not finishing. > The main prerequisite for the specification is a brave person to handle > the whole user/group specification. Any volunteers? What would need to be specified? Syntax for the commands? Reserved user/group names/numbers? -- Jakob 'sparky' Kaivo - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.ndn.net/ "As time goes on, my signature gets shorter and shorter..." - me
