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Aral Balkan<p>Hint: use adduser, which is perl wrapper around useradd when working interactively and useradd from scripts, as it is more portable.</p><p>(And if you’re setting up a server in an automated fashion, let cloud-init, etc., handle it for you.)</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/linux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>linux</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/userAdd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>userAdd</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/addUser" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>addUser</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/cloudInit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cloudInit</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/server" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>server</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/setup" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>setup</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/interactive" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>interactive</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/scripted" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>scripted</span></a></p>
Aral Balkan<p>Linux: We have no idea why folks think we’re hard to use.</p><p>Also Linux: Would you like to use useradd or adduser to add a user to your system?</p><p>🤔</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/linux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>linux</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/userAdd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>userAdd</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/addUser" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>addUser</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/decisionDecisions" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>decisionDecisions</span></a></p>
openSUSE Linux<p><a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/useradd" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>useradd</span></a> has changed a lot over the years. Read why &amp; find out how <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/YaST" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>YaST</span></a> now relies on <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/useradd" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>useradd</span></a>, <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/groupadd" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>groupadd</span></a> and other <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/shadow" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>shadow</span></a> tools when creating users and groups during installation. Find out this &amp; more in the latest <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://fosstodon.org/@opensuse" class="u-url mention">@<span>opensuse</span></a></span> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/YaST" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>YaST</span></a> sprint - <a href="https://yast.opensuse.org/blog/2021-06-28/sprint-126" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">yast.opensuse.org/blog/2021-06</span><span class="invisible">-28/sprint-126</span></a></p>
Dick Smiths Fair Go Supporters<p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://theres.life/@rose_myrtle" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>rose_myrtle</span></a></span><br>Passwords for what, precisely? Who told you not to use p/ws. We're pretty sure you should still use p/ws</p><p>Setup another login for other persons. Don't give them read access to important files? On Unix the command to add a user is something like <a href="https://activism.openworlds.info/tags/useradd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>useradd</span></a>.</p><p>Maybe don't include that user in the group called <a href="https://activism.openworlds.info/tags/wheel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>wheel</span></a>, 'wheel' allows them to use <a href="https://activism.openworlds.info/tags/sudo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sudo</span></a>/#superUserDo/root etc.</p><p>Its been a long time since we did this though so if someone else has any ideas/improvements then please help here.</p>
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