Joel <rees@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > It's not immediately apparent that adduser and useradd are in fact two > different commands. > > useradd is essentially an alias of "user add", if I remember correctly. > Also, they seem to use different configuration files. # ll /usr/sbin/useradd /usr/sbin/adduser lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 Dec 15 13:38 /usr/sbin/adduser -> useradd -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 57648 Dec 4 03:59 /usr/sbin/useradd