Re: [hylafax-users] Caldera faxsetup problem with useradd

[Lee Howard <faxguy@deanox.com>]

>> Tim Rice had a better idea of writing the "fax" user directly rather than
>> through useradd.  That's functional fix.  See my reply to him on -users.
>
>I must register my disagreement with my esteemed colleague... Use The
>API, Luke; you don't always know what useradd is doing: specifically,
>*it* knows about PAM (shadow passwords, MD5, and maybe even RADIUS),
>and you don't.

The problem in this case being that the useradd in question doesn't support
adding users to  existing uids.  Below is *all* the information that I have
found on this version.  'man useradd' does nothing.

[root@metroid deanox]# /usr/sbin/useradd
usage:  useradd [-u uid] [-g group] [-m] [-d home] [-s shell] [-r rootdir]
                [-e expire dd/mm/yyyy] [-f inactive] name
        useradd -D
        useradd -v

Lee.



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