mFat to [email protected]English • 2 years agoWhat feature/utility/app are you surprised is not installed by default in Linux distributions?message-square194fedilinkarrow-up1139
arrow-up1139message-squareWhat feature/utility/app are you surprised is not installed by default in Linux distributions?mFat to [email protected]English • 2 years agomessage-square194fedilink
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink18•2 years agouseradd - 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.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink4•2 years agoSeems like it would have to exist to create your initial login, unless you only had a root user
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink1•2 years agoI 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?
minus-squaresuperkretlinkfedilink11•2 years agoIf you don’t manually edit /etc/passwd using ed, are you really a Linux user?
minus-squareX3Ilinkfedilink7•2 years agoRan 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 creation
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink7•2 years agoYeah, useradd should be the default over adduser
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.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?
If you don’t manually edit /etc/passwd using ed, are you really a Linux user?
It’s the standard editor!
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