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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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