1. Group management and groups membership
A newly created user is only member of its own group
$ id test02
uid=1003(test02) gid=1003(test02) groups=1003(test02)

John, a not so powerful adminof his home sytem, wants to access his
modem or fax for example? Or any other devices based on group
membership.

John wants to create a shared directory on his system for Photos, Videos
and Musics  and only members of group 'personalmedia' have write access
to it. He needs to be able to create the group in the first place.

2. Support for profile ? 
There is a profile 'administrator' which actually adds the user to a useless 
group 'admin'. The legacy admin account being 'adm'
How does the sysadmin adds custom profiles ?

3. Home directory 
John wants to store additional accounts on an additional disc mounted on 
/data/users. So he wants users already created to stay on /home and new users 
created on /data/users

4. Shell
By default the shell is /bin/dash, John really likes his customized prompt, 
command history and command completion. So he wants bash

5. User Id
John used dejadup to restore home directories from his broken home desktop to a 
shiny new system and he wants to recreate the users with  to match with his 
poor broken system. 
He has a powerful graphical one-click solution to restore nearly everything and 
must recreate all the users from the command line. :(

That's just a few examples that comes to mind, the most important being
the lack of group management.

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