Thomas Iverson a écrit :
Hi there , you are almost right adduser is only a symbol-link of the useradd in CentOS , for my explanation , it may be security-related you know , to use useradd , you can also specify the home dir,group and so on , but script codes have danger adduser under some distros such as archlinux,slackware is a bash-script , so if you think it's more convenient to use a user-friendly adduser written in bash , you can do it yourself , but before that you should know exactly how to create a new user without useradd-like utilities
Hi,
I just found a copy of "RHEL 5 Unleashed", and there's a very clear chapter about local user management, which explains Red Hat's specific use of 'useradd', especially default options.
Cheers,
Niki