Hi, Frank Brodbeck wrote on Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 07:50:22PM +0200:
> Here's a diff leaving -G alone and introducing -S I don't really see the point in adding functionality to adduser, useradd and friends. Both are low-quality, bloaty, mostly useless code in the first place. And each is a duplicate of the other. For interactive use, both are just pointless, you get your job done quicker by doing it by hand than by learning the syntax of such tools. If you have so many users that you use scripting for creating user accounts - i have at one site - you have your own, dedicated scripts anyway, these are typically very short - mine is less than 80 lines, including comments, doing much more than adduser/useradd (setting up YP information and backup quota), and not worth publishing because it's highly specialised. I think that is typical. When you only have plain files in /etc, again, these tools are pointless. When you have any kind of database, no matter whether it's YP or something else, they plainly don't work. So, i'd just cvs rm both and be done with it; or if some people still use them, leave them alone, they are not in the way, i don't object to committing changes either, but i think actively maintaining them really is a waste of time. Yours, Ingo
