Paul D. Smith writes: > They are the standard tools for creating users on most SysV-like flavors > of UNIX, such as Solaris, HP-UX, AIX, etc.
> While Debian may have some better, more unified way, I'll stick with the > portable ones,... Debian's adduser/addgroups program is written in Perl, calls useradd, and is licensed under the terms of the GPL. How much more portable do you want it? -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI