commands: adduser and useradd

kurrupt · 10-19-2004, 03:55 PM

what is the difference between the commands adduser and useradd ?

barisdemiray · 10-19-2004, 05:36 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by kurrupt
what is the difference between the commands adduser and useradd ?

adduser is a _shell script_ interface for useradd (_utilizes useradd_ internally). Look at this:

Code:

[root@slackware:~]$ file `which useradd`
/usr/sbin/useradd: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked (uses shared libs), stripped
[root@slackware:~]$ file `which adduser`
/usr/sbin/adduser: Bourne-Again shell script text executable
[root@slackware:~]$

at least this is true for my slackware box.

emailssent · 10-19-2004, 11:47 PM

Do not remember to googling for such questions

@kurrupt

#whereis adduser
it will give the path of adduser

Then,
#ls -l <pathgiven by whereis>

it will show u the output

So,
adduser is a symbolic link to useradd and they both can be used interchangebly

Mines show,

# ls -l /usr/sbin/adduser
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 Sep 7 21:49 /usr/sbin/adduser -> useradd*