On Sunday 19 May 2013 15:22:12 Richard W.M. Jones wrote:

> On Sat, May 18, 2013 at 10:15:54AM -0700, Adam Williamson wrote:

> > ... so on a minimal install you only had to set a root password and

> > you wound up with a system with just the root user.

> I know, and it was a pain to remember the right groupadd/useradd

> commands!

 

Huh? What's wrong with a simple "useradd foobar"?

On Fedora/RHEL/Centos the defaults for useradd in /etc/login.defs are

very sane, so you don't need extra commands:

- Create private group (USERGROUPS_ENAB) -- yes

- Create home directory (CREATE_HOME) -- yes

 

So all that is left is to "passwd foobar", but that is routine to any Linux user even during normal life-cycle.

 

Bye,

 

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