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   Robey ☠️ (robey@messydesk.social)'s status on Sunday, 05-Jan-2025 10:33:39 JST Robey ☠️

   my name is `adduser`
   and my brother's `useradd`
   one of us is good
   and one of us is bad!

   which of us is which?
   there is no way to know
   we change names sometimes
   to keep you on your toes!

   • Fish in the percolator, Doughnut Lollipop 【記録係】:blobfoxgooglymlem: and prettygood and 2 others like this.
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     feld (feld@friedcheese.us)'s status on Sunday, 05-Jan-2025 13:16:17 JST feld

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     @robey don't forget "createuser" when you have Postgres installed. Have accidentally called that one before ...
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     Rachel Rawlings (linuxandyarn@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 05-Jan-2025 15:40:45 JST Rachel Rawlings

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     @robey
     one of us usually tells the truth
     the other sometimes lies
     but if we told you which was which
     we'd spoil the surprise!

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     Garrett Wollman (wollman@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 05-Jan-2025 15:41:14 JST Garrett Wollman

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     @robey Great thing about pw(8) is it doesn't care which order you use: `useradd`, `adduser`, `addgroup`, `groupadd`, whatever.

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     Glyph (glyph@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 05-Jan-2025 15:41:17 JST Glyph

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     • SnoopJ

     @robey @SnoopJ and don’t talk to our cousin dscl, he is too crazy for rhymes

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     Gorgeous na Shock! (indigoparadox@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 05-Jan-2025 15:41:27 JST Gorgeous na Shock!

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     @robey I just edit /etc/{group,passwd} with vi and then run pwck and grpck and passwd because I cannot deal with this.

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     GreenSkyOverMe (Monika) (greenskyoverme@ohai.social)'s status on Sunday, 05-Jan-2025 15:43:17 JST GreenSkyOverMe (Monika)

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     • Gorgeous na Shock!

     @indigoparadox Reasonable.

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     Wolf480pl (wolf480pl@mstdn.io)'s status on Sunday, 05-Jan-2025 15:43:37 JST Wolf480pl

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     @robey I thought the only time you'd use adduser is when writing a pre-install script for a deb package...

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     Mohammad | محمد (mokazemi@persadon.com)'s status on Sunday, 05-Jan-2025 15:43:48 JST Mohammad | محمد

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     @robey I thought I'm the only one who always forgets which one is wich! : :blobcatpeek2: 😆
     Also the first try is usually the wrong choice, like plugging a USB XD

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     Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: (lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me)'s status on Sunday, 05-Jan-2025 18:25:21 JST Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:

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     • Wolf480pl
     @wolf480pl @robey Checked manpages to be sure and adduser seems to be on BSDs.
     That said I've mainly used illumos and Linux with ignoring the annoying adduser of Debian so useradd it is for me (which I remember via the related usermod command).