On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 7:44 PM, Bob Proulx <b...@proulx.com> wrote: > > AFAIK adduser is Debian specific and useradd came from other distros. > AFAIK Debian supports useradd as a nod to those other distros. And > because IIRC the LSB requires it.
Debian is the upstream of both useradd and adduser. adduser is a wrapper around useradd. adduser doesn't necessarily exist in other distros. If it does, it isn't necessarily the equivalent of the Debian one; in RH-land it's a symlink to useradd. If it does and is the equivalent of the Debian one, I doubt that it has the equivalent of the "essential" tagging that Debian gives it. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CAOdo=SyEEu2eveJP3e1h_xfF1jymmgJvU6zyuvK=y474shq...@mail.gmail.com
