On Jan 3, 11:41am in "Re: Status of my sub", Jim Kingdon wrote: > > Now forgive my ignorance about passwddb, but what is being used > > for the command line user and group admininstrative interface? > > If memory serves, we very briefly mentioned this in New York. Various > standards committees have worked on things like useradd and adduser in > the past but if memory serves those drafts never made it to standards. > The useradd and groupadd utilities were standardized in POSIX 1387.3-1996 IEEE Standard for Information Technology-Portable Operating System Interface (POSIX®) System-Part 3: User and Group Account Administration
Its basically derived from the SVR4 useradd/usermod and groupadd/groupmod utilities and their relations. Redhat has shipped these for a couple of releases. regards Andrew
