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[–] 66 points 1 year ago (16 children)

On a side note:
I hate it that the password-change command is minimally abbreviated to "passwd".
Come on, making it much more complicated to remember and saving just two freakin letters??

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  • [–] 70 points 1 year ago (8 children)
  • [–] 37 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    But the only command that I have to look up every damn time, although it has no abbreviation at all, is useradd.
    Oh no, wait, I mean adduser!
    ... No, wait again... aah...

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    All the worse that Debian has both useradd and adduser. I never remember which is the one I want. And in Redhat-derivatives it’s something even more confusing.

    The only thing I ever want to do is add a user to a group, is that too much to ask?

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    adduser is an interactive wrapper for useradd. It can, for example, prompt the user to set a password rather than execute passwd separately. Very useful if you just want to manage a user without reading through useradd's command line options, then running usermod because you forgot to set something.

    It doesn't excuse the bad naming, I'd rather have something like useradd --interactive, but it's worth remembering.

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  • [+] 34 points 1 year ago (2 children)
  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago* (2 children)

    making it much more complicated to remember

    Do you not tab-complete your commands? I mean, my terminal usage for anything beyond very short commands consists of .

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Do you not tab-complete your commands?

    Sure I do (although nowadays Strg-r does most of the heavy lifting for me), but as a decent touch-typist I am often faster directly typing short commands, like passwor... damn, I mean: passwd ;-)

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