Timeline for What does adduser do that useradd doesn't?
Current License: CC BY-SA 4.0
12 events
| when toggle format | what | by | license | comment | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| S Nov 12, 2020 at 8:31 | history | suggested | kelvin | CC BY-SA 4.0 | Use a proper usermod invocation and drawback |
| Nov 11, 2020 at 20:43 | review | Suggested edits | |||
| S Nov 12, 2020 at 8:31 | |||||
| Jun 1, 2018 at 7:32 | review | Suggested edits | |||
| Jun 1, 2018 at 8:09 | |||||
| Aug 3, 2016 at 5:49 | comment | added | Franklin Yu | On my Ubuntu 16.04, -U/--user-group seem to the default. | |
| Mar 30, 2014 at 14:09 | vote | accept | Graeme | ||
| Mar 24, 2014 at 10:28 | history | edited | Graeme | CC BY-SA 3.0 | edited body |
| Mar 24, 2014 at 0:29 | comment | added | user55518 | nice post. For me a little too much details. What I miss most is, that adduser was originally created for server admin's who frequently needed to create/modify/limit real users like on an email server at university. With adduser you can automate the process. This changed a little during the years so nowadays useradd can be to difficult for many admins and for them adduser has become the tool of choice. | |
| Mar 24, 2014 at 0:09 | comment | added | Graeme | @mikeserv, no there are no hashed passwords. There is another program you should know about though - chpasswd - this can accept hashed passwords on stdin. I will wait til tomorrow before I update that other answer though I think. | |
| Mar 24, 2014 at 0:06 | history | edited | Graeme | CC BY-SA 3.0 | added 360 characters in body |
| Mar 23, 2014 at 23:51 | comment | added | mikeserv | I don't know if I completely agree with the "administrators should..." statement though... Personally, I believe the administrator should probably be putting together his/her own adduser according to a system-wide policy, but that's just armchair quarterbacking at best. | |
| Mar 23, 2014 at 23:47 | comment | added | mikeserv | This is cool! I didnt even know this was a question. Does it take hashed passwords as useradd does? This is very good work, by the way. | |
| Mar 23, 2014 at 23:10 | history | answered | Graeme | CC BY-SA 3.0 |