On Mon, Apr 28, 2025 at 1:43 AM Marc Haber <mh+debian-de...@zugschlus.de> wrote: > > 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.
I am very sure, yes. This is the behavior on Ubuntu at least, I assume on Red Hat-ish systems it calls something different. > 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 >
