> I suggest using the useradd command to add a user and userdel command > to remove it. Both commands belong to the passwd package which I > suppose is essential, so always installed.
Unfortunatly not. 'dpkg -p passwd' Package: passwd Priority: required Section: base Installed-Size: 908 Maintainer: Karl Ramm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Architecture: i386 Source: shadow Version: 20000902-12 Replaces: manpages (<= 1.15-2) Depends: libc6 (>= 2.2.4-4), libpam0g (>= 0.72-1), login (>= 970502-1), libpam-modules (>= 0.72-5) Conflicts: shadow-passwd, pam-apps, suidregister (<< 0.50) Filename: pool/main/s/shadow/passwd_20000902-12_i386.deb Size: 274350 MD5sum: 86bcf311fef7ad9f2185776a32958d87 Description: Change and administer password and group data. -- Magnus Ekdahl 0739-287181 [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] public key available at http://oxtan.campus.luth.se/magnus.public ftp://ftp.se.debian.org/debian-non-US/pool/non-US/main/d/debian-keyring/ Key fingerprint = 18DE CB62 8A86 374E 824E 09ED 1987 4B18 1213 79F6 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]