mFat to [email protected]English • 2 years agoWhat feature/utility/app are you surprised is not installed by default in Linux distributions?message-square203fedilinkarrow-up1143arrow-down11
arrow-up1142arrow-down1message-squareWhat feature/utility/app are you surprised is not installed by default in Linux distributions?mFat to [email protected]English • 2 years agomessage-square203fedilink
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink17•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-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]linkfedilink6•2 years agoYeah, useradd should be the default over adduser
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?
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.deleted by creator
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
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?