Re: the recent exchange on how to add a new userid to a Linux system: Patrick Kirk wrote:
> Thanks. I didn't even know there was a command adduser! Why is it better > than useradd? As a newby myself, this hit a nerve. How are we to know that adduser is a later (therefore better) version of useradd? That's just a guess at the history, but remember, there are a bunch of old documents out there that will still be describing the old version of things months and perhaps years after the gurus purge their mental caches of a "solved problem". I setup PCMCIA ether networking on my Fujitsu running Debian using the general network setup data in the "Running Linux" book. It actually works, but it was only months later I discovered the PCMCIA package stuff that has a real nice automatic infrastructure for issuing the ifconfig and route statements that I was semimanually entering. How is a newby to know that "adduser" is preferable to "useradd" when a "man user" just pops both out? How was I to know to read the PCMCIA stuff instead of the general networking stuff in "Running"? KUTGW -- Charles B. (Ben) Cranston mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.wam.umd.edu/~zben
