[plug] re: take the test

[Greg Mildenhall]

On Sun, 8 Aug 1999, John Summerfield wrote:
> > If you're creating a new account from the commandline, chown is
> > necessary.
> 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).

Sorry, I wasn't clear enough. I meant (as did the people who wrote the
question, one can but assume) creating the account manually, rather than
using such a script/binary. Edit /etc/passwd, /etc/groups, create home
directory, etc, etc.

Out of interest, a _binary_??
Why I can't imagine there is a compiled language out there more
appropriate for the task than perl or bash, and it must be a real pain not
being able to look at exactly what the script does without finding the
source package. Is this just RH's "infinite wisdom" at work?

-Greg