adduser and useradd

Posted Dec 8, 2024 1:44 UTC (Sun) by marcH (subscriber, #57642)
Parent article: Debian opens a can of username worms

> It has long been said that naming things is one of the hard things to do in computer science.

No, it's very easy! Look:

> Most Debian users don't work with useradd, or groupadd, directly. Instead, Debian has long supplied its own adduser (and addgroup) utilities. These act as simpler front ends to useradd.

Couldn't resist sorry.