On Sun, 27 Apr 2025 09:49:17 -0500, Aaron Rainbolt <arraybo...@gmail.com> wrote: >adduser has one very useful piece of functionality useradd doesn't >have to my awareness, which my workplace absolutely depends on for >hardware we build and sell. That's the ability to execute a "hook >script" at user creation (/usr/local/sbin/adduser.local), which can >then do bits of user account specific setup that can't be done via the >skel mechanism. Yes, we could just write a script that calls useradd >and then runs our user setup stuff, but adduser is currently >integrated into KDE (the desktop environment our hardware uses), so >that when the end user creates a new user account in KDE's settings >UI, the hook script is automatically run.
Are you actually sure that KDE uses adduser? adduser as we are talking about is a Debianism. The Red Hat World has its own adduser, which is totally independent (and also totally incompatible), so I'd advise all other programs which should be useful outside the Debian ecosystem to not invoke adduser but to resort to standardized tools. Greetings Marc -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Rhein-Neckar, DE | Beginning of Wisdom " | Nordisch by Nature | Lt. Worf, TNG "Rightful Heir" | Fon: *49 6224 1600402
