Re: ADDUSER command.

["M.K.Laha" <mlaha@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 19 May 1999, Muthu wrote:

> Hello Everybody,
> 
> 	It is good that Linux India has come to life.
> 
> 	I have a doubt regarding the "ADDUSER" command. In Slackware, creating a
> user using the "adduser" command in textmode is a simple process of
> answering some basic questions and at the end, the user is created. In
> Redhat, creating a user using the "adduser" or "useradd" command in
> textmode needs some command line parameters and it is a little bit tedious.
> 
> 	My question is, if I copy the "ADDUSER" file from Slackware to Redhat, and
> try to create a user, will it work properly?.
> Eagerly waiting for your reply.


Red Hat is sufficiently different (pardon me if I call it weird!) from
Slackware to make this a risky experiment. In particular, Slackware does 
not by default support shadow passwords. You might face 
problems/inconsistencies if Red Hat does.

- - Manas Laha

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