creating a system user with no home dir/no passwd..

Joel rees at ddcom.co.jp
Mon May 9 03:42:37 UTC 2005


On Fri, 6 May 2005 11:56:35 +0300
zavandi <zavandi at gmail.com> wrote

> Joel <rees at ddcom.co.jp> wrote:
> > It's not immediately apparent that adduser and useradd are in fact two
> > different commands.
> > 
> > useradd is essentially an alias of "user add", if I remember correctly.
> > Also, they seem to use different configuration files.
> 
> # ll /usr/sbin/useradd /usr/sbin/adduser
> lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root     7 Dec 15 13:38 /usr/sbin/adduser -> useradd
> -rwxr-xr-x  1 root root 57648 Dec  4 03:59 /usr/sbin/useradd

(does a man adduser)

Oops.

Guess it comes from trying to multitask development on freebsd and
fedora core at the same time.

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