[Pkg-shadow-devel] Re: [Adduser-devel] Re: Processed: Re: --force-badname unsupported by groupadd

[Marc Haber]

On Tue, Feb 08, 2005 at 07:06:18AM +0100, Christian Perrier wrote:
> So "adduser --group" then calls groupadd and not addgroup. *that* sound
> strange to me....

lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root 7 Jan  5 13:38 /usr/sbin/addgroup -> adduser*

If adduser --group would call addgroup, it would re-invoke itself.

> PS to Marc and adduser maintainers : for post-sarge, we should
> probably talk together (I'm in the process of taking over shadow, the
> source package for passwd and login, which include useradd and
> groupadd). Having both a "useradd" and a "adduser" utility in Debian
> seems very confusing to our users. Even me is usually forced to
> remember which is which.
> 
> We should probably consider some day declaring useradd and groupadd
> obsoleted by adduser and addgroup which have far more features.

useradd is the standard way that is available on most UNIX systems.
additionally, adduser uses useradd to do the actuall adding of the new
account.

adduser, otoh, is a Debianism.

To use other words: adduser is the front-end, useradd is the back-end.

Greetings
Marc

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