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adding users in Redhat 7.3
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sleipnir214
Programmer
The command should be "useradd". If you enter the command at the shell prompt with no command-line parameters, it should issue a help screen. ______________________________________________________________________
TANSTAAFL!
TANSTAAFL!
this i a link that will help out with the adduser command
it is for freebsd but it should be some help
Ben
it is for freebsd but it should be some help
Ben
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fluffybunny
MIS
If you ask me, I'd rather just edit the passwd file directly and then just update the shadow files using pwconv.
It's faster, easier and more efficient.
Regards.
There are many ways of doing things, select your way.
It's faster, easier and more efficient.
Regards.
There are many ways of doing things, select your way.
You think that doing something like this....
vipw
chris:somepass:522:522::/home/chris:/bin/bash
pwconv
mkdir /home/chris
cp /etc/skel/* /home/chris/
...is faster than this....
useradd chris
passwd chris
Well, thats just our personal preferences I guess. The useradd utility does more than just edit the password file too. It will check for duplicate UIDs and GIDs and it assigns them automatically if you don't specify one.
ChrisP
vipw
chris:somepass:522:522::/home/chris:/bin/bash
pwconv
mkdir /home/chris
cp /etc/skel/* /home/chris/
...is faster than this....
useradd chris
passwd chris
Well, thats just our personal preferences I guess. The useradd utility does more than just edit the password file too. It will check for duplicate UIDs and GIDs and it assigns them automatically if you don't specify one.
ChrisP
fluffybunny,
I can't believe that someone would actually take the risk
of corrupting the vital auth mechanism for a machine because
he/she believes that concatenating arguments is too much
trouble. I would say that this is a minority view.
Furthermore, from personal experience it isn't a good idea
to do everyhting manually. Most of the editors and better scripts make a backup of the file opened to save from change to change. Your method does not allow for this automagically.
This is a high risk method. If you have ever seen the
login message "Go away you don't exist.." you'll know what I mean.
If you don't like the interface, hide it...
You can wrap it in a tcl/tk script, shell/awk script with
dialog frontend,i.e: add to the functionality as you go.
I can't believe that someone would actually take the risk
of corrupting the vital auth mechanism for a machine because
he/she believes that concatenating arguments is too much
trouble. I would say that this is a minority view.
Furthermore, from personal experience it isn't a good idea
to do everyhting manually. Most of the editors and better scripts make a backup of the file opened to save from change to change. Your method does not allow for this automagically.
This is a high risk method. If you have ever seen the
login message "Go away you don't exist.." you'll know what I mean.
If you don't like the interface, hide it...
You can wrap it in a tcl/tk script, shell/awk script with
dialog frontend,i.e: add to the functionality as you go.
sleipnir214
Programmer
fluid11,
To answer your earlier question:
"TANSTAAFL" is an acronym for "There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch" ______________________________________________________________________
TANSTAAFL!
To answer your earlier question:
"TANSTAAFL" is an acronym for "There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch" ______________________________________________________________________
TANSTAAFL!
fluid11 (& anyone else interested)
I did a google search on TANSTAAFL and got several hitss including
CaKiwi
I did a google search on TANSTAAFL and got several hitss including
CaKiwi
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