[ale] Useradd Replacement or Upgrade

[stephen at usersouth.com (Stephen Cristol)]

On Aug 3, 2006, at 1:10 AM, Brian Pitts wrote:
>> If I may take this in a slightly different direction, in CentOS (and
>> possibly other distributions) what is the difference between:
>>
>>        /usr/sbin/useradd
>>
>>        /usr/sbin/luseradd
>>
>> [snip]
> The second one uses libuser. According to the documentation, "The
> libuser library implements a standardized interface for  
> manipulating and
> administering user and group accounts. The library uses pluggable
> back-ends to interface to its data sources. Sample applications  
> that are
> modeled after applications from the shadow password suite are included
> in the package." The backends to use are configured in /etc/ 
> libuser.conf.

Brian,

Thanks. I hadn't found the connection to libuser.

S