[plug] re: take the test

[John Summerfield]

> On Sat, 7 Aug 1999, Gary Allpike wrote:
> > Some example questions:
> > Why is it necessary to use "chown" when creating new user accounts via the
> > command line?
> > The correct answer is "because your adduser script is rooted"
> That is beside the point. If you're creating a new account from the
> commandline, chown is necessary. Seems to me that this is typically done

Tisn't. I create ALL my user accounts from the commandline using whatever 
RHS has inflicted on my. It's never necessary for me to run chown (or 
chmod); that function's included in the useradd command (now a binary, 
used to be a script called adduser).




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