Re: [CentOS] adduser vs. useradd

On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 11:28 PM, Niki Kovacs contact@kikinovak.net wrote:

Hi,

To add a user to the system on the commandline, I usually use the adduser command.

# adduser newuser

And that's it. I've been using that command probably out of an old habit, since I've been a long-time Slackware user before. But now I wanted to dig a bit deeper, and some details puzzle me.

Whereas on Slackware, 'adduser' is an interactive shell script to create a user so that basically you don't have to memorize all the 'useradd' switches, CentOS' 'adduser' is a mere symbolic link to 'useradd'.

Did you try 'man adduser' or 'man useradd?' There's lots of good info there....

mhr