On 1/6/19 11:26 AM, Rich Shepard wrote:
On Sun, 6 Jan 2019, Ben Koenig wrote:
old school unix philosophy is focused on multiuser mainframes. For this
reason, the more basic utilities such as 'adduser' do not create a group
for a new user.
Ben,
New school philosopher's can use 'useradd' with the -g option to add a
group. See man useradd for all options. At least, on Slackware it does.
That is how most graphical user management tools do it. On Slackware
people
get opinionated about which tool you should use, so I'll just lay out
the
options for creating a new user.
adduser:
command line utility that creates a user, profile, and adds groups for
basic functionality
- DOES NOT create a dedicated group for that user.
- defaults to next available UID
On Slackware 14.2:
$ man adduser
No manual entry for adduser
[rshepard@salmo ~]$ man useradd
USERADD(8) System Management Commands
USERADD(8)
NAME
useradd - create a new user or update default new user information
SYNOPSIS
useradd [options] LOGIN
useradd -D
useradd -D [options]
DESCRIPTION
When invoked without the -D option, the useradd command creates
a new
user account using the values specified on the command line
plus the
default values from the system. Depending on command line
options, the
useradd command will update system files and may also create
the new
user's home directory and copy initial files.
By default, a group will also be created for the new user (see
-g, -N,
...
Thanks. Useful for the future.
--
Regards,
Dick Steffens
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