[Pkg-shadow-devel] Bug#295416: Deleting a user group in userdel should only be done if the group is empty

[Martin Quinson]

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On Sun, May 08, 2005 at 03:31:40AM +0300, Alexander Gattin wrote:
> > I spent some time during previous week to look at
> > useradd in other unices. What I found, in particular,
> > is that in FreeBSD, e.g. there's no useradd/userdel at
> > all.
>=20
> Neither in OpenBSD. But there's useradd/userdel utils
> in NetBSD though:
>   http://netbsd.gw.com/cgi-bin/man-cgi?useradd
>   http://netbsd.gw.com/cgi-bin/man-cgi?userdel+8
>=20
> former being rather similar to its shadow counterpart.
>=20
> In AIX there's mkuser/rmuser instead.
>   http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/pseries/topic/com.ibm.aix.doc/=
cmds/aixcmds3/mkuser.htm
>=20
> P.S. I think we should not expect a user to expect ;)
> any similarity between useradd/userdel tools across
> different Unices at all.

My personal experience is that if you want to design something right, do
what is in solaris or do the contrary of what you have in aix. Both are the
right choice. ;)


ps: I have access to an IRIX, but there is no adduser/useradd/mkuser man
page on it. Any hint on what I should look for? I may dig apropos user
further tomorow.

Bye, Mt.

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