adduser doesn't quite get it

[Zenko Klapko Jr.]

Yes, I thought as a command line tool adduser is the barebones command
to add users to a system. Checking the main page one can find the
options for adding/changing a default group and additional groups.

I also remember a limitation of 16 groups for some software
applications. I'm not sure if that is still in effect or not.

-Zenko

On 10/27/08, John Summerfield <debian at herakles.homelinux.org> wrote:
> Michal Jaegermann wrote:
>> On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 09:52:42AM -0700, Jesse Keating wrote:
>>> On Mon, 2008-10-27 at 07:30 -0700, Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R wrote:
>>>> A user added with the adduser command doesn't seem to have as many
>>>> privileges as one added from the GUI.  The obvious one is the ability to
>>>> use the sound system.  That was the problem with xmms.
>>> Which command line tool did you use to create the user?  IIRC one of
>>> them (luseradd) uses libuser as the backend, which can set the selinux
>>> permissions correctly where as useradd does not.
>>
>
> There's also the point that adduser does what you tell it, and that's
> not to add the user to lots of groups unless rootuser specifies
> otherwise, while another tool might add users to groups that fit well
> the the distro's philosophy. In the former case, sound might not while
> in the latter it works well.
>
>> Before anybody will ask - adduser and useradd this is the same
>> thing.
>
> It is in RedHattish systems, but not so in others.
>
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