What feature/utility/app are you surprised is not installed by default in Linux distributions?mFat@lemdro.id to Linux@lemmy.ml – 142 points – 1 years ago202Post a CommentPreviewYou are viewing a single commentView all commentsuseradd - I just wanted to give a friend my notebook for a python lecture and thought I could just add him as a new user. Apparently not by default.Ran into this some time ago and learned that there is a more rudimentary command adduser instead but it does not do things like home folder creationYeah, useradd should be the default over adduserSeems like it would have to exist to create your initial login, unless you only had a root userYou can just manually edit /etc/passwdI haven't used that since the 90s on HP Unix. Do you get to set default permissions for file creation there, and also add user groups?2 more...
useradd - I just wanted to give a friend my notebook for a python lecture and thought I could just add him as a new user. Apparently not by default.Ran into this some time ago and learned that there is a more rudimentary command adduser instead but it does not do things like home folder creationYeah, useradd should be the default over adduserSeems like it would have to exist to create your initial login, unless you only had a root userYou can just manually edit /etc/passwdI haven't used that since the 90s on HP Unix. Do you get to set default permissions for file creation there, and also add user groups?2 more...
Ran into this some time ago and learned that there is a more rudimentary command adduser instead but it does not do things like home folder creationYeah, useradd should be the default over adduser
Seems like it would have to exist to create your initial login, unless you only had a root userYou can just manually edit /etc/passwdI haven't used that since the 90s on HP Unix. Do you get to set default permissions for file creation there, and also add user groups?
You can just manually edit /etc/passwdI haven't used that since the 90s on HP Unix. Do you get to set default permissions for file creation there, and also add user groups?
I haven't used that since the 90s on HP Unix. Do you get to set default permissions for file creation there, and also add user groups?
useradd- I just wanted to give a friend my notebook for a python lecture and thought I could just add him as a new user. Apparently not by default.Ran into this some time ago and learned that there is a more rudimentary command
adduserinstead but it does not do things like home folder creationYeah, useradd should be the default over adduser
Seems like it would have to exist to create your initial login, unless you only had a root user
You can just manually edit /etc/passwd
I haven't used that since the 90s on HP Unix. Do you get to set default permissions for file creation there, and also add user groups?